On Monday 10 December 2007 8:21:03 am Michael Droettboom wrote: > It appears to be finding "wadalab-gothic" as the font, which is a > Japanese font. Now, *why* it is doing that is the million dollar question. > > It should (by default) by loading the Bitstream Vera Sans font > (Vera.ttf) from > /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf. I > would verify that it is there and readable by the "user" that the CGI > script runs under. You can try refreshing the font-finding cache by > removing the file ~/.matplotlib/fontManager.cache. > > If that doesn't provide any clues, can you send me the fontManager.cache > (probably best off-list), and I'll see what fonts it *is* finding, again > hopefully providing more clues. > > One other thing to note about the output: it is loading the matplotlibrc > from /home/www/www/cgi-bin/, (since it is present), and not from > /home/private/mpl/.matplotlib/. Perhaps there is something incorrect in > that matplotlibrc file.
The matplotlibrc file was basically using all defaults. Have you tried deleting your site-packages/matplotlib* and the build/ directory from your mpl sources, and reinstalling? Darren > Tim Lewis wrote: > >> Can you set "verbose.level" to "debug-annoying" in your matplotlibrc and > >> send us the output? That may help provide an explanation as to why the > >> text is not appearing. Also, for good measure, can you provide your > >> matplotlibrc file, and information about the platform and versions of > >> Python that you are using? > > > > See the attachments. Their platform is RedHat Linux and python 2.4.3 > > > >> Do you get different results when you run at > >> the commandline vs. from an http request? It could be that incorrect > >> permissions (as user "apache", for instance) are causing the problems. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Mike > > > > I'd like to run it from the command line, but I haven't done it before > > (and not sure how to do it); the web hosting server is in a land far > > far away. :-) I am just running the script from a http request. I > > can probably have them run it if need to. > > > > Thanks, > > > >> Tim Lewis wrote: > >>> I'm using the code from > >>> http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Using_MatPlotLib_in_a_CGI_scri > >>>pt to generate plots from my web server. The plot shows up fine (w/o > >>> text) but when I use xlabel("x-axis"), ylabel("y-axis"), or title("A > >>> Chart"); no text shows up on the plot. Everything seems fine with the > >>> install and I don't get any errors when I run the script. It seems > >>> that that matplotlib is unable to find the font's and just simply > >>> ignores them -- I really dunno. > >>> > >>> Any suggestions? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
