I've found a little work-a-round to get my custom font. Here it is:
from ctypes import windll gdi32 = windll.gdi32 FR_PRIVATE = 0x10 gdi32.AddFontResourceExA(FILENAME_OF_TTF,FR_PRIVATE,0) greetz Frank Am 18.05.2010 16:09, schrieb Michael Droettboom: > We went through this a few years ago on the Cairo mailing list. > The short answer is you need to copy the fonts from mpl-data to > C:\Windows\Fonts to correctly use Cairo. > > The long answer: Cairo uses fontconfig for font lookup, which by default > searches the system font directory (C:\Windows\Fonts). There is an > fontconfig API to add another font directory to search, but it is not > exposed to Python. The cairo guys don't want to expose it in pycairo > because that API is not technically part of cairo, but there isn't a > proper Python wrapper to fontconfig, so until one is created we're sort > of left with our hands tied. > > This is probably worthy of a FAQ in the docs. > > Mike > > copyrig...@gmx.de wrote: >> Hallo, >> >> I'm try to use MathTextParser output for cairo in my wxpython gui. >> Works well under ubunutu linux (maybe dublicated font) but fails under >> windows (screenshot: >> http://www.ubuntu-pics.de/bild/62985/auswahl_017_RC86gk.png ). >> >> How to tell cairo to use the font file from mpl-data? >> >> Here some code: >> >> from matplotlib.mathtext import MathTextParser >> from matplotlib.font_manager import ttfFontProperty >> import wx >> import wx.lib.wxcairo >> import cairo >> >> #... >> MPC = MathTextParser("Cairo") >> dc = wx.BufferedPaintDC(self) >> ctx = wx.lib.wxcairo.ContextFromDC(dc) >> #... >> width, height, descent, glyphs, rects = >> self.mathtext_parser.parse(r"$a_0+a_1\xi+a_2\xi^2+a_3\xi^3$",dpi,prop) >> #... >> >> for font, fontsize, s, ox, oy in glyphs: >> #... >> fontProp = ttfFontProperty(font) >> #... >> ctx.select_font_face (fontProp.name, >> self.fontangles [fontProp.style], >> self.fontweights[fontProp.weight]) >> >> #... >> ctx.show_text(s.encode("utf-8")) >> #... >> #... >> >> greetz >> >> Frank >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-users mailing list >> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
