Re: [Matplotlib-users] IDL Font question

It depends exacly what you need, but this might help: Ghostscript comes with the Hershey fonts. You should be able to choose an appropriate font name in Matplotlib, e.g. Hershey-Gothic-English, and produce a Postscript file using an appropriate backend. You should then be able to convert that t

Re: [Matplotlib-users] IDL Font question

On 01/11/2007, Jose Gomez-Dans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Some colleagues have sent some plots which they generated using IDL > (boo!!! hiss!! :D), and they look quite dissimilar to my matplotlib > ones. I would like to mimic their layout as much as possible, which so > far is a success. Th

Re: [Matplotlib-users] IDL Font question

IDL uses the Hershey vector fonts The problem is that these are not trutype fonts, so the easiest solution is probably to find some free sans-serif font that looks close to Hershey on a fre

[Matplotlib-users] IDL Font question

Hi, Some colleagues have sent some plots which they generated using IDL (boo!!! hiss!! :D), and they look quite dissimilar to my matplotlib ones. I would like to mimic their layout as much as possible, which so far is a success. The only problem is that I don't know what font to use. In IDL, I beli