I suspect there is an .afm font file on your new system that is untested with matplotlib and exhibiting something "new".
I would first try to track down which font file it is, and then send it to me off list and I'll have a look at what might be tripping up matplotlib. Cheers, Mike Rich Shepard wrote: > I upgraded my notebook to Slackware-12.0 (which includes python-2.5) and > discovered that the application I'm developing no longer ran. Turns out that > matplotlib went missing during the upgrade. > > So, I just built matplotlib-0.91.2 using the same matplotlib.Slackbuild > script I used on my workstation/server, but this time it failed. The font > manager seems to be the issue; the error message repeatedly is: "Found an > unknown keyword in AFM header (was Underline)". Specifically, the error is > in File "/usr/lib/Python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/afm.py", line 166, in > _parse_char_metrics > name=vals[2].split()[1] > IndexError: List index out of range > > Is this unique to me? What do I do to fix the problem? > > TIA, > > Rich > > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
