import pylab
from numpy import pi, sin, tanh, arange

pylab.rcParams["font.family"] = "serif"

pylab.rcParams['font.serif'] = ['Nimbus Roman No9 L',
                                'Times New Roman',
                                'Times',
                                'New Century Schoolbook',
                                'Century Schoolbook L',
                                'Utopia',
                                'ITC Bookman',
                                'Bookman',
                                'Palatino',
                                'Charter',
                                'Bitstream Vera Serif',
                                'serif']
x=arange(0,2*pi,0.1)
pylab.close("all")

pylab.plot(x, sin(x), label=r"$\sin(x)$")
pylab.plot(x, tanh(x), label=r"$\tanh(x)$")
pylab.axis(ymin=-1.1,ymax=1.1)
pylab.title("Font testing")
pylab.savefig("no_nimbus.pdf")
pylab.legend(loc="best",ncol=2)
pylab.show()