I don't know for certain, but perhaps the font-forge program has a repair
utility? http://fontforge.github.io/en-US/

On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 5:51 AM, knight91 <knigh...@web.de> wrote:

> Okay, is there a way to get an afm font file with a nicely formed header?
> How
> could I try to solve this problem?
>
>
> Thomas Caswell wrote
> > You have an afm font file with a badly formed header.  I thought this was
> > fixed on the master branch though....
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 4:51 PM knight91 &lt;
>
> > knight91@
>
> > &gt; wrote:
> >
> >> Python claims to be unable to import pyplot. Apart from that, it has
> been
> >> running absolutely fine.
> >>
> >> I tried different versions of matplotlib, the one provided in my package
> >> manager (apt-get) and two (stable & last stable) releases compiled from
> >> source. I reinstalled all packages containting "python" on my system
> >> (Ubuntu
> >> 14.04 LTS). This error still occurs and prevents me from using pyplot.
> >>
> >> What should I try next?
> >>
> >> Python 2.7.6 (default, Jun 22 2015, 17:58:13)
> >> [GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
> >> >>> from matplotlib import pyplot
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >> File "
> > <stdin>
> > ", line 1, in
> > <module>
> >> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 24, in
> >>
> > <module>
> >>   import matplotlib.colorbar
> >> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/colorbar.py", line 29, in
> >>
> > <module>
> >>   import matplotlib.collections as collections
> >> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/collections.py", line 23,
> >> in
> >>
> > <module>
> >>   import matplotlib.backend_bases as backend_bases
> >> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line
> 50,
> >> in
> >>
> > <module>
> >>   import matplotlib.textpath as textpath
> >> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/textpath.py", line 11, in
> >>
> > <module>
> >>   import matplotlib.font_manager as font_manager
> >> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line
> >> 1356,
> >> in
> > <module>
> >>   _rebuild()
> >> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line
> >> 1341,
> >> in _rebuild
> >>   fontManager = FontManager()
> >> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line
> >> 1008,
> >> in __init__
> >>   self.afmlist = createFontList(self.afmfiles, fontext='afm')
> >> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line
> 563,
> >> in
> >> createFontList
> >>   font = afm.AFM(fh)
> >> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/afm.py", line 342, in
> >> __init__
> >>   parse_afm(fh)
> >> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/afm.py", line 330, in
> >> parse_afm
> >>   dcmetrics_ascii, dcmetrics_name = _parse_char_metrics(fh)
> >> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/afm.py", line 203, in
> >> _parse_char_metrics
> >>   bbox = _to_list_of_floats(vals[3][2:])
> >> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/afm.py", line 69, in
> >> _to_list_of_floats
> >>   return [_to_float(val) for val in s.split()]
> >> ValueError: invalid literal for float(): 19#
> >>
>
>
>
>
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