Yup, thanks for the help everyone
Michael Droettboom-3 wrote: > > For the benefit of future users Googling this problem --> > > After an off-list discussion, we realized there were a couple of fonts > on Alex' system with the names "Century Schoolbook" and "New Century > Schoolbook LT Std". Using one of those names instead resolved the > problem. > > Mike > > Alex S wrote: >> Ah ok, I've sent it on to you. I've just tried setting font.family to >> "New >> Century Schoolbook" directly but it generates something similar. I'm >> starting to think part of the problem is that I've set the home directory >> to >> U: somehow, U: being a shared drive which doesn't have a font >> directory... >> I don't know how I set this, it's not mentioned in the rc file anywhere >> that >> I can see... >> >> >> Michael Droettboom-3 wrote: >> >>> It would still be helpful to see the whole listing (send it to me >>> offlist) because that will indicate where fonts are being looked for, >>> and hopefully *why* this is failing. >>> >>> It should search for fonts in the standard Windows location (usually >>> C:\Windows\Fonts). Have you tried setting font.family to "New Century >>> Schoolbook" directly? (I wonder if the secondary lookup is failing). >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Mike >>> >>> Alex S wrote: >>> >>>> I think I'm using MPL .99.1 (is there a command to check?) on Windows >>>> XP. >>>> Thanks for the debug tip, I don't think posting the whole thing is >>>> necessary >>>> because this line seems to be the problem: >>>> >>>> findfont: Could not match >>>> :family=serif:style=normal:variant=normal:weight=normal:stretch=normal:size=12.0. >>>> Returning >>>> C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\mpl-data\fonts\ttf\Vera.ttf >>>> >>>> So I guess the font's missing from the folder. Can I add it somehow? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Michael Droettboom-3 wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Can you set "verbose.level" to "debug-annoying" in your matplotlibrc >>>>> file, and then send the output to this list. That may help us track >>>>> down where the font lookup is failing. Also, what platform and >>>>> version >>>>> of matplotlib are you running? >>>>> >>>>> Mike >>>>> >>>>> Alex S wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, sorry I wasn't too clear... I changed that, but I don't seem to >>>>>> be >>>>>> able >>>>>> to choose between the different serif fonts, it just always gives me >>>>>> the >>>>>> default... >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Alex S wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi there, >>>>>>> I'm trying to change the font default on my graph to New Century >>>>>>> Schoolbook. I'm trying to do this by editing the matplotlibrc file. >>>>>>> Unfortunately, although I'm able to change the font.family, I can't >>>>>>> figure >>>>>>> out how to make it use something other than the default in the >>>>>>> family... >>>>>>> I tried changing the list further down to only include the font I >>>>>>> want, >>>>>>> like this: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> font.serif : New Century Schoolbook #Bitstream Vera Serif, >>>>>>> New >>>>>>> Century Schoolbook, Century Schoolbook L, Utopia, ITC Bookman, >>>>>>> Bookman, >>>>>>> Nimbus Roman No9 L, Times New Roman, Times, Palatino, Charter, serif >>>>>>> >>>>>>> (note I commented out the other fonts, just rearranging the list to >>>>>>> put >>>>>>> New Century Schoolbook first didn't seem to work either) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Could anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? >>>>>>> Thanks a lot! >>>>>>> Alex >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Michael Droettboom >>>>> Science Software Branch >>>>> Operations and Engineering Division >>>>> Space Telescope Science Institute >>>>> Operated by AURA for NASA >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval >>>>> Try the new software tools for yourself. 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