Mike, Thanks for the reply. I found that I had (on a whim) set my mathtext.fontset to stixsans and then forgot about it. Returning that value to cm fixes my issues. In short, I'm all squared away now. Thanks!
Paul M. Hobson > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Droettboom [mailto:md...@stsci.edu] > Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 1:38 PM > To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] Errors with PDF (TeX-string) output > using Qt4Agg > > On 10/12/2009 04:17 PM, Jouni K. Seppänen wrote: > > <phob...@geosyntec.com> writes: > > > > > >> File "C:\Python25\Lib\site- > packages\matplotlib\backends\backend_pdf.py", line 1378, in > draw_mathtext > >> self.file.output(self.encode_string(unichr(num), fonttype), > Op.show) > >> ValueError: unichr() arg not in range(0x10000) (narrow Python > build) > >> > > Right, IPython really had mangled the traceback. That looks like the > > mathtext parser is outputting some characters outside the Basic > > Multilingual Plane. Could you try the following: > > > > python -i c:\GDAG2009\python\pyTest.py -d pdf > > > > Then when the error occurs, you should be at a Python prompt. Then > type > > (or just copy and paste from here - be careful with the first two > lines, > > since any exception will cause Python to forget the existing > traceback): > > > > from pdb import pm > > pm() > > p fontname, fontsize, num, symbol_name > > p s, width, height, descent, glyphs, rects, used_characters > > p fonttype, global_fonttype > > > > It might work to set pdf.fonttype to 3 in matplotlibrc, but even if > it > > helps, it would be useful to find the root of this problem. > > > > > What is your mathtext.fontset setting? If it's stixsans, then it is > possible that mathtext would produce codepoints outside of the BMP > (this > is due to the way the STIX fonts are encoded). Unfortunately, the > standard Python builds for Windows don't support characters in this > range. > > There might actually be a work around possible in the PDF backend -- > but > it will have to involve encoding Unicode characters without using > Python > unicode objects. I'm looking into a patch now. > > Cheers, > Mike > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- > Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart > your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and > stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
