Hi,
Fixed it by deleting fontList.cache in my tmp directory that was being used
by the web server.
Maybe this helps someone else.
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu> wrote:
> When run as the web server, it's probably running as a different user. Is
> Arial installed in ~/.fonts? If so the webserver user won't find it.
>
>
> On 04/04/2011 03:17 PM, Robbie Edwards wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to use matplotlib to generate some graphs on a webpage for me.
> Everything works pretty well, except, I cannot make a change to the fonts.
> I've set up the scripts to be called as a cgi script or to be run from the
> command line. When I run them from the command line, I get the correct font
> (Arial) yet when run from the web page, it uses the CMR10 font. Arial is
> installed on the linux system.
>
> I've thought the problem might be related to which matplotlibrc file each
> script might be using, but when I check matplotlib.matplotlib_fname() from
> the command line and web page, they return the same.
>
> Maybe there is a way to get the --verbose-debug output when run from a
> web page? That could help me figure out what's going on.
>
> You can set "verbose.level" to "debug-annoying" in your matplotlibrc. If
> the webserver is collecting standard output, the debug messages should end
> up in the web server logs.
>
>
> I know I could manually specify the font using font_manager, but that's
> not really ideal as I'd have to do it manually for each graph. I'd rather
> have a global solution for all my graphs. Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
>
>
> robbie
>
>
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