On 01/16/2013 01:32 PM, Paulo César Pereira de Andrade wrote: > 2013/1/16 Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu>: > >> There was a very silly bug lurking in USE_FONTCONFIG=True mode, and I've >> made a PR with a fix here: >> >> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/1666 > Updated test case with that patch: > http://pcpa.fedorapeople.org/matplotlib-2.7+pull-1666.txt > >> However, I thought I'd investigate the issue with the STIX fonts -- I >> actually just upgraded to F18 yesterday, so I thought I'd try what you >> suggest and get matplotlib to use them. >> >> Thanks for taking on packaging for matplotlib, and thanks for understanding >> the importance of running the test suite. >> >> It seems that the stix fonts packages in Fedora only come in .otf format -- >> I believe this is how they are shipped upstream as well. Unfortunately, >> matplotlib has no support for reading .otf files, so these are simply >> unusable to matplotlib. >> >> There are some options: >> >> 1) Include the STIX ttf fonts included with matplotlib in the matplotlib >> package and install them in `matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf` (as a vanilla >> install would do) so as not to conflict with the stix-fonts package. Maybe >> these go in a python-matplotlib-stix-fonts package. > For the sake of correctness, I believe this should be the better option. > I did: > $ sudo mkdir /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf > $ sudo cp -a matplotlib-1.2.0/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf/*STIX* > /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/fontsSave: No > changes need to be saved, save again to override -- nothing saved. > $ ls /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf/ > LICENSE_STIX STIXNonUniBol.ttf STIXSizOneSymBol.ttf > STIXGeneralBolIta.ttf STIXNonUniIta.ttf STIXSizOneSymReg.ttf > STIXGeneralBol.ttf STIXNonUni.ttf STIXSizThreeSymBol.ttf > STIXGeneralItalic.ttf STIXSizFiveSymReg.ttf STIXSizThreeSymReg.ttf > STIXGeneral.ttf STIXSizFourSymBol.ttf STIXSizTwoSymBol.ttf > STIXNonUniBolIta.ttf STIXSizFourSymReg.ttf STIXSizTwoSymReg.ttf > > This should require asking permission for bundling, but not duplicating > as ttf stix font are not installed. Before asking for it, you may want to > look at the test results: > http://pcpa.fedorapeople.org/matplotlib-2.7-mpl-data-with-bundled-stix-ttf.txt > Because I did not see any difference on the results, so I probably missed > some step...
Did you turn USE_FONTCONFIG back to False? font-config won't find fonts here, but matplotlib's built-in font lookup mechanism will. Mike > >> 2) Include a version of the STIX fonts converted to ttf. This will still >> have the problem that the glyph tables in matplotlib need to be updated to >> use them. >> >> 3) Update matplotlib's freetype wrapper to support .otf fonts. Doable, but >> considerable work. >> >> 4) Leave it as is but warn that STIX font support is broken with the Fedora >> matplotlib package. >> >> Mike > I actually did submit an update > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-matplotlib-1.2.0-7.fc18 > before you posted about > https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/1666 > So would prefer a more complete review before overriding it. > The update should be in queue for a week before going to > mirrors, so it can be revoked and a better update submitted. > > Thanks, > Paulo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Java SE, Java EE, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery and much more. Keep your Java skills current with LearnJavaNow - 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Java experts. SALE $49.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122612 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
