I just wanted to add: if i simply set the font to Arial, using
rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Arial']})
then it works. But the same call with Helvetica still defaults to that
Bitstream/default font of matplotlib. any idea why this might be? could
matplotlib be confusing helvetica with bitstream?
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:28 AM, per freem <perfr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i am trying to use the Helvetica font on matplotlib. i am using mac os x
> (so i definitely have helvetica installed) with version 0.98.5.2 of
> matplotlib. my code is:
>
> from scipy import *
> import matplotlib
> matplotlib.use('PDF')
> from matplotlib import rc
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']})
> plt.hist(rand(100))
> xlabel(r"My x axis $\alpha$")
> ylabel(r"My y axis $\beta$")
>
> i verified that plt.rcParams gets modified to use 'Helvetica' as the value
> for font.family, etc. but i still get the default font used in all of these
> figures. i tried using the PS backend using matplotlib.use('PS') but the
> problem persists. i am interested in getting out PDFs that use helvetica
> everywhere.
>
> does anyone know how to fix this? thank you.
>
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