On 10/01/2010 10:40 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > On 10/01/2010 11:31 AM, Jason Grout wrote: >> I'm working on updating matplotlib in Sage to 1.0. We're running into >> a problem where it seems that the fontList.cache is not being updated. >> I've included an example session below. The .matplotlib directory is >> accessible here: >> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/jason/.matplotlib/ The problem >> seems to be that it is looking for a file that does not exist: >> >> [ja...@sage:/scratch/jason/sage-4.6.alpha2]$ ls >> /scratch/grout/sage-4.5.3/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf/Vera.ttf >> ls: cannot access >> /scratch/grout/sage-4.5.3/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf/Vera.ttf: >> No such file or directory >> >> >> Does anyone have any idea what is going on? Why is the fontList.cache >> file not being updated, instead of trying to access a path that doesn't >> exist? > There is a fix in SVN for this, but it has not yet been released. When > a font file is not found, it rebuilds the entire font cache on the spot.
Thanks. Do you know the commit? We'll apply it to the Sage matplotlib package. >> A related question is: I see the variable USE_FONTCONFIG in >> font_manager.py. It says it is experimental. How stable is that code? >> It's tempting to switch to using fontconfig. > I use it as a matter of course on my Linux box and haven't had any > issues. It's experimental because it's the kind of thing that is so > affected by external environmental issues and distro differences. Just > because it "works for me", there's no guarantee it will work > everywhere. But go ahead and give it a try and report back with the > distro you're using. > Well, with Sage, we're using it on a number of distros, flavors of OSX, Solaris, etc. So maybe I'll stick with the home-grown caching solution. At least until we've tested it a bit on different support platforms for Sage. I thought there was some sort of build bot for matplotlib that tested on a number of platforms. Do you know how the fontconfig stuff does on that (if it exists...). Thanks, Jason ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
