Jörgen Stenarson wrote: > Michael Droettboom skrev: >> Unfortunately, I think this is a bug. The ordering of fonts in the >> family list is being ignored, and Bitstream Vera Sans is winning over >> Nimbus Roman for reasons other than its name. I'll have to get this >> patch in for the bugfix release we're already planning. >> >> As a workaround, try putting only "Nimbus Roman No9 L" as the only >> font in the list. Does that help? >> >> Also, I don't see the Nimbus Roman font file (n021003l.ttf) anywhere >> in the debugging output. Are you sure it's in C:\Windows\Fonts ? >> >> Mike >> > > As you say it seems only one font at a time can be specified. These > are the ones I have managed to use by only specifying a single font: > Times New Roman, Georgia, Euclid, Arial, Vera. > > It seems the Nimbus Roman my LaTeX installation uses is from > utmr8a.pfm and utmr8a.pfb some kind of Type 1 font. I can install the > pfm file in the system font directory but not the pfb files, anyway > matplotlib won't use it. That is correct. matplotlib can only use ttf files (or the standard 14 Postscript files when outputting Postscript). > Is there a free ttf version available somewhere or is it possible to > put the pfm/pfb files it somewhere else and have matplotlib use it? I believe Nimbus Roman is just a clone of Times that is included with Ghostscript.
http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/nimbus/ If you have Times or Times New Roman installed, that's probably a reasonable substitute. Cheers, Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
