Hey Mike
$ fc-match Helvetica
n019003l.pfb: "Nimbus Sans L" "Regular"
Perhaps I don't have the fonts installed...
In my matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ I have the following fonts installed...
in ttf/
cmb10.ttf RELEASENOTES.TXT STIXSizFourSymBol.ttf VeraIt.ttf
cmex10.ttf STIXGeneralBolIta.ttf STIXSizFourSymReg.ttf VeraMoBd.ttf
cmmi10.ttf STIXGeneralBol.ttf STIXSizOneSymBol.ttf VeraMoBI.ttf
cmr10.ttf STIXGeneralItalic.ttf STIXSizOneSymReg.ttf VeraMoIt.ttf
cmss10.ttf STIXGeneral.ttf STIXSizThreeSymBol.ttf VeraMono.ttf
cmsy10.ttf STIXNonUniBolIta.ttf STIXSizThreeSymReg.ttf VeraSeBd.ttf
cmtt10.ttf STIXNonUniBol.ttf STIXSizTwoSymBol.ttf VeraSe.ttf
COPYRIGHT.TXT STIXNonUniIta.ttf STIXSizTwoSymReg.ttf Vera.ttf
LICENSE_STIX STIXNonUni.ttf VeraBd.ttf
README.TXT STIXSizFiveSymReg.ttf VeraBI.ttf
and in pdfcorefonts
Courier.afm Helvetica-Bold.afm Times-Bold.afm
Courier-Bold.afm Helvetica-BoldOblique.afm Times-BoldItalic.afm
Courier-BoldOblique.afm Helvetica-Oblique.afm Times-Italic.afm
Courier-Oblique.afm readme.txt Times-Roman.afm
Helvetica.afm Symbol.afm ZapfDingbats.afm
Which does include some Helvetica fonts. And the font that I am trying
to use doesn't *have* to be helvetica. I just like that font, so I was
playing with it.
Steven
On 9/25/12 10:41 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
> 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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