Thank you very much for the help, I'm sorry I didn't reply to you. I ended up doing what you recommend against, which is I took my fontlist.cache and copied it to the other computers C:\Documents and Settings\username\.matplotlib folder. This worked, maybe because all the computers here have the same font that for some reason didn't get included in the fontlist for everyone else. I know it's not perfect and that if I tried to get the program to work for anyone outside of work it would probably crash horribly, but it works now so I think I'll just leave it.
Thank you very much Mike, you might not remember but you were the one that taught me how to get it into New Century Schoolbook in the first place. http://old.nabble.com/Changing-the-font-td28111472.html#a28118916 Here it is , for old times sake. Michael Droettboom-3 wrote: > > On 01/13/2011 11:38 AM, Alex S wrote: >> Hi there, >> I've made a program that makes plots using New Century Schoolbook Lt Std >> font. I did this by inserting this into the matplotlibrc file: >> >> font.family : New Century Schoolbook LT Std # serif #sans-serif >> >> There's also a "fontlist.cache" file that I think points to it when it >> says: >> >> . >> . >> . >> (dp283 >> g12 >> g45 >> sg14 >> S'New Century Schoolbook LT Std' >> p284 >> sg16 >> I400 >> sg17 >> g13 >> sg18 >> . >> . >> . >> >> This all works fine on my computer. But I'm trying to make it run on >> other >> people's computers (off a network drive) but when I do the plots all go >> back >> into Ariel font and all the spacing and stuff gets screwed up. Running >> the >> exact same exe from the same place, my computer continues to make them >> with >> the correct font. I have copied the matplotlibrc file and the >> fontlist.cache file from my hard drive (C:...Matplotlib) to the mpl-data >> folder in the dist folder (from py2exe) but that didn't work. >> >> Does anyone have any ideas for fixing this stuff? I think it might just >> be >> a matter of including the right files in the Py2Exe setup file but I >> don't >> know which ones. Or maybe changing how I select the font, which was a >> roundabout way of doing it from the start. > The fontList.cache file maps from the properties (names, weights, > slants) etc. of the fonts available on a particular system to their file > path. You should definitely not ship this file with the exe, but rather > allow it to be regenerated from scratch on each system, since the > selection and locations of fonts is very likely to be different. > > I think "New Century Schoolbook" is one of the fonts that ships with > Windows, so you can probably count on it being there. If not, you need > to ship the font as part of the exe by adding it to mpl-data/fonts/ttf > and then following the instructions to include the fonts given here: > > http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/MatPlotLib >> When I run the plots >> (successfully on my computer) it says this at one point: >> >> c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\backends\backend_pdf.py:982: >> UserWarning: 'newcenturyschlbkltstd-roman.otf' can not be subsetted into >> a >> Type 3 font. The entire font will be embedded in the output. >> >> Maybe that has somethign to do with what's going on? >> > I don't think that's related. All this means is that when it embeds the > font into the PDF file, it has to embed the entire thing rather than > only the characters that are being used. (Resulting in a larger PDF > file, but otherwise fine.) To avoid this message, you can set the > rcParam "pdf.fonttype" to 42. > > Cheers, > Mike >> >> >> Thanks a lot, >> Alex >> > > > -- > Michael Droettboom > Science Software Branch > Space Telescope Science Institute > Baltimore, Maryland, USA > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks > Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand > malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you > can protect your company and customers by using code signing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Font-not-carrying-through-Py2Exe-tp30663871p30676209.html Sent from the matplotlib - users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
