Hi,
currently, PS backend does not work well with some fonts. For
instance, it displays a dotted square instead of whitespace with
Arial, and some strange dots instead of whitespace with Times New
Roman. This patch fixes it by omitting glyphs named ".notdef" from PS
output.
diff -urN matplotlib-0.90.0-orig/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py matplotlib-0.90.0/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py
--- matplotlib-0.90.0-orig/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py 2006-12-20 08:39:20.000000000 +0300
+++ matplotlib-0.90.0/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py 2007-02-14 16:32:06.000000000 +0300
@@ -776,7 +776,8 @@
lastgind = gind
thisx += kern/64.0
- lines.append('%f %f m /%s glyphshow'%(thisx, thisy, name))
+ if name != '.notdef':
+ lines.append('%f %f m /%s glyphshow'%(thisx, thisy, name))
thisx += glyph.linearHoriAdvance/65536.0
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