fonts is Helvetica.
>
> But yes, this is a bug, only in that the error message could be better, not
> that using Arial as an AFM would ever work.
>
> As for reducing file sizes, are you already using ps.fonttype set to 3?
> That will subset a TTF font, and should reduce file sizes
Hi everyone
I'm a matplotlib's beginner user and I had a problem that seems to be
a bug. If I enable the option ps.useafm and I ask for a font that is
not available in my OS, the matplotlib's font manager tries to get a
default font, which is Vera (I don't know how the default font is set
to Vera,
