Are you certain you have Helvetica installed as a TrueType font? If you
don't, the only way to get the Postscript Helvetica is to set
"ps.useafm" to True.
Cheers,
Mike
per freem wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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