Do you have a font installed called Helvetica? That's pretty rare these
days... most systems have one of the many Helvetica clones instead.
Does "fc-match Helvetica" (at the commandline) return anything?
Mike
On 09/25/2012 10:05 AM, Steven Boada wrote:
> List,
>
> I am trying, with little success, to change the fonts on my plots. It
> seems like a simple thing to do, but I can't seem to make it work.
>
> First, here is the relevant section of my Matplotlibrc file:
>
> backend : GTKAgg
>
> font.family : sans-serif
> font.style : normal
> font.weight : medium
> font.sans-serif : Helvetica
>
> (I copied this from the Matplotlibrc documentation page)
>
>
> Now if I make a plot, and put some labels on there... (just using ipython)
>
> In [3]: figure()
> Out[3]: <matplotlib.figure.Figure at 0x2acb950>
>
> In [4]: xlabel('Hz',fontsize=20)
> Out[4]: <matplotlib.text.Text at 0x2ae3510>
>
> In [5]:
> /opt/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py:1216:
> UserWarning: findfont: Font family ['sans-serif'] not found. Falling
> back to Bitstream Vera Sans
> (prop.get_family(), self.defaultFamily[fontext]))
>
>
> I get this over and over and over again. I have deleted everything in my
> ~/.matplotlib folder. That is, I have deleted all of the font caches...
> I can't come up with anything else. The internet seems to thing that
> just deleting the caches will fix everything. In my case it doesn't.
>
> I get this problem on both my mac, and my Ubuntu Linux 12.04 machine.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Steven
>
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