On 11/29/2010 10:52 AM, Daniel Hyams wrote:
Just out of curiosity, is anyone using the fontconfig way of mapping
fonts? I turned it on one day, but the immediate problem was that no
mathtext worked any more; so I turned it back off. Any mathtext in
titles, labels, etc. just rendered as a much of seemingly random letters.
That's one of the drawbacks of the fontconfig mode -- probably the main
reason it isn't turned on by default. fontconfig only looks in
system-standard locations for fonts (by default), and matplotlib
installs its special math fonts in a different place. fontconfig
provides a C-level API to add another search directory, but it would
have to be wrapped for Python.
And I'll tack a second question in here as well; the reason that I was
playing with fontconfig is that the font cache takes a really long
time to build in certain circumstances (I'm having trouble identifying
exactly when)....so I guess the question is...has anyone else seen
this? For example, on my (2008 vintage) mac mini, a complete rebuild
of the font cache takes around 3 seconds, which is fine. On a macbook
pro (tested on three different machines so far), it takes 30 seconds.
This makes no sense at all to me, so any insights welcome :)
It's dependent on a) how many fonts you have installed and b) the
performance of the file system they are on. On my Linux machine with a
number of network shares involved, it can take a very long time.
I initially thought that perhaps the other users had a ton more fonts
than I, but I don't think so...if I remember correctly, their font
cache on the macbook pro ended up being smaller than mine on the mini.
It's hard to say what might be causing this.
However, why are you concerned about it, since the cache only has to be
built once? (After all, that is the point of an on-disk font cache in
the first place...)
Mike
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu
<mailto:md...@stsci.edu>> wrote:
The fontManager is essentially a replacement for what fontconfig
provides on many platforms -- so it's intended that the fontManager
doesn't exist if the user opts to use fontconfig. However, that's
still
an "experimental" option because it hasn't been formally tested on
many
platforms, and, as you point out, there may still be code paths that
aren't coded correctly for that option.
Mike
On 11/25/2010 10:34 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 24, 2010, Daniel Hyams<dhy...@gmail.com
<mailto:dhy...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> MPL 1.0.0, OSX
>> If USE_FONTCONFIG is turned on, the function
FontProperties.get_size_in_points will sometimes fail, because it
is wanting to use "fontManager", which is still 'None' if
USE_FONTCONFIG is on. I'm not sure if it's the proper way to fix
it, but here is a small patch that works (meaning that at least
the code doesn't die; I can't vouch for much else):
>>
>>
>> ORIGINAL:
>> def get_size_in_points(self): if self._size is not
None: try: return float(self._size)
>>
>> except ValueError: pass
default_size = fontManager.get_default_size() return
default_size * font_scalings.get(self._size)
>>
>>
>> NEW:
>> def get_size_in_points(self): if self._size is not
None: try: return float(self._size)
except ValueError:
>>
>> pass if fontManager:
default_size = fontManager.get_default_size() else:
default_size = rcParams['font.size']
>>
>> return default_size * font_scalings.get(self._size)
>>
>> --
>> Daniel Hyams
>> dhy...@gmail.com <mailto:dhy...@gmail.com>
>>
>>
> I personally think that this is reasonable, as it guarantees a size
> value to come from somewhere. However, I am concerned about
> fontManager being None. If it isn't a bug for it to be None at this
> point, then I have to wonder where-else in the code needs a
check for
> None? If it is a bug, then what should it be when USE_FONTCONFIG is
> true?
>
> Good catch Daniel.
>
> Ben Root
>
>
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