For the benefit of future users Googling this problem --> After an off-list discussion, we realized there were a couple of fonts on Alex' system with the names "Century Schoolbook" and "New Century Schoolbook LT Std". Using one of those names instead resolved the problem.
Mike Alex S wrote: > Ah ok, I've sent it on to you. I've just tried setting font.family to "New > Century Schoolbook" directly but it generates something similar. I'm > starting to think part of the problem is that I've set the home directory to > U: somehow, U: being a shared drive which doesn't have a font directory... > I don't know how I set this, it's not mentioned in the rc file anywhere that > I can see... > > > Michael Droettboom-3 wrote: > >> It would still be helpful to see the whole listing (send it to me >> offlist) because that will indicate where fonts are being looked for, >> and hopefully *why* this is failing. >> >> It should search for fonts in the standard Windows location (usually >> C:\Windows\Fonts). Have you tried setting font.family to "New Century >> Schoolbook" directly? (I wonder if the secondary lookup is failing). >> >> Cheers, >> Mike >> >> Alex S wrote: >> >>> I think I'm using MPL .99.1 (is there a command to check?) on Windows XP. >>> Thanks for the debug tip, I don't think posting the whole thing is >>> necessary >>> because this line seems to be the problem: >>> >>> findfont: Could not match >>> :family=serif:style=normal:variant=normal:weight=normal:stretch=normal:size=12.0. >>> Returning >>> C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\mpl-data\fonts\ttf\Vera.ttf >>> >>> So I guess the font's missing from the folder. Can I add it somehow? >>> >>> >>> >>> Michael Droettboom-3 wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Can you set "verbose.level" to "debug-annoying" in your matplotlibrc >>>> file, and then send the output to this list. That may help us track >>>> down where the font lookup is failing. Also, what platform and version >>>> of matplotlib are you running? >>>> >>>> Mike >>>> >>>> Alex S wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hi, sorry I wasn't too clear... I changed that, but I don't seem to be >>>>> able >>>>> to choose between the different serif fonts, it just always gives me >>>>> the >>>>> default... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Alex S wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Hi there, >>>>>> I'm trying to change the font default on my graph to New Century >>>>>> Schoolbook. I'm trying to do this by editing the matplotlibrc file. >>>>>> Unfortunately, although I'm able to change the font.family, I can't >>>>>> figure >>>>>> out how to make it use something other than the default in the >>>>>> family... >>>>>> I tried changing the list further down to only include the font I >>>>>> want, >>>>>> like this: >>>>>> >>>>>> font.serif : New Century Schoolbook #Bitstream Vera Serif, >>>>>> New >>>>>> Century Schoolbook, Century Schoolbook L, Utopia, ITC Bookman, >>>>>> Bookman, >>>>>> Nimbus Roman No9 L, Times New Roman, Times, Palatino, Charter, serif >>>>>> >>>>>> (note I commented out the other fonts, just rearranging the list to >>>>>> put >>>>>> New Century Schoolbook first didn't seem to work either) >>>>>> >>>>>> Could anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? >>>>>> Thanks a lot! >>>>>> Alex >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> Michael Droettboom >>>> Science Software Branch >>>> Operations and Engineering Division >>>> Space Telescope Science Institute >>>> Operated by AURA for NASA >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval >>>> Try the new software tools for yourself. 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