Dear Michael and Christoph,
Many thanks for looking into this. I am away from my W8 virtual machine right
now, so I couldn't look into relative file sizes on the fonts. I'd appreciate
being informed on any fixes.
Chad
________________________________
From: Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu>
To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] mathtext and fonts under Windows 8
Christoph,
The patch you attach looks like it might be helpful to us. I'll
investigate further.
Mike
On 01/17/2013 12:10 PM, Christoph Gohlke wrote:
> I can reproduce this. The Windows 8 Arial font is different from the one
> in Windows 7. It seems other projects encountered and fixed the same
> issue: <http://code.google.com/p/sumatrapdf/issues/detail?id=2056>
>
> Christoph
>
>
> On 1/17/2013 7:20 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
>> Is the Arial font file different on Windows 8 vs. Windows 7? (Just a
>> difference in file size would be enough to know). If so, it's probably
>> the nature of those differences that we need to look into.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On 01/16/2013 10:04 AM, CAB wrote:
>>> Dear Mike & Paul,
>>> Thanks for your replies. I tried Mike's protocol, and I found that
>>> font_manager found the Arial font ("C:\\Windows\\fonts\\Arial.ttf") in
>>> the right place. I don't have fontforge yet, so I guess I need to
>>> install and check it out.
>>> But the thing that bothers me about this error is that it only occurs
>>> if I try to mix mathtext and non-matplotlib font. So matplotlib finds
>>> Arial just fine. And it finds the mathtext font fine. Only the
>>> mixture is fatal. It's as if the parser loses track of the Arial
>>> font, or it looks for a mathtext glyph in Arial. Very strange that it
>>> occurs only in Windows 8.
>>> Regarding Paul's response, I don't have LaTeX on the W8 computer, and
>>> my impression is that mathtext doesn't look for "mathematical Arial",
>>> instead there are some packaged fonts that it uses for this purpose,
>>> like Computer Modern and STIX.
>>> I'll try to hunt this down further, and let you know if I find anything.
>>> Best,
>>> Chad
>>>
>>> *From:* Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu>
>>> *To:* matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>>> *Sent:* Thursday, January 10, 2013 7:35 AM
>>> *Subject:* Re: [Matplotlib-users] mathtext and fonts under Windows 8
>>>
>>> Since this is specific to Windows 8, I wonder if the Arial font has
>>> been updated in that version. If it's a newer OTF font, rather than a
>>> TTF font, it's possible matplotlib can't read it correctly.
>>>
>>> You can see what font file is on each platform by starting up a Python
>>> prompt and doing:
>>>
>>> >>> from matplotlib import font_manager
>>> >>> font_manager.findfont("Arial")
>>>
>>> It should display the path to the font. From that, you should be able
>>> to get the Arial file on each of your platforms and see if they are
>>> different. To get more details, you could open them up in the open
>>> source "fontforge" tool. Sorry I can't do this myself, as I don't
>>> have access to anything past XP.
>>>
>>> If the fonts turn out to be different, as a workaround, you could try
>>> backing up and then replacing the Arial font on your Windows 8 machine
>>> with the one on your Windows 7 machine.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> On 01/09/2013 11:59 PM, Paul Hobson wrote:
>>>> Sounds like it might have something to do with your Latex
>>>> installation (if any) or the barebones Latex-rendering done by MPL
>>>> alone. Namely, they simply don't have the characters for mathematical
>>>> Arial available.
>>>>
>>>> Not too sure though. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable responds.
>>>> -paul
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:31 PM, CAB <cabr...@yahoo.com
>>>> <mailto:cabr...@yahoo.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi, All,
>>>>
>>>> I am encountering a thorny problem when trying to run matplotlib
>>>> under Windows 8. If I label an axis using a command like
>>>>
>>>> ax.set_ylabel(r'time (s)', name='Arial'),
>>>>
>>>> all is well. But if try to add mathtext to that, as in
>>>>
>>>> ax.set_ylabel(r'time ($s$)', name='Arial'),
>>>>
>>>> mathtext.py <http://mathtext.py/> throws an error (a very long
>>>> stream) ending in "RuntimeError: Face has no glyph names". If I
>>>> remove the "name='Arial'" above and let the program default to
>>>> Bitstream Vera Sans, the mathtext works.
>>>>
>>>> This problem does not occur under Windows 7 or XP; only under two
>>>> different Windows 8 installations. Any ideas what's going on?
>>>>
>>>> Chad
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Master Java SE, Java EE, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript,
>>>> jQuery
>>>> and much more. Keep your Java skills current with LearnJavaNow -
>>>> 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Java experts.
>>>> SALE $49.99 this month only -- learn more at:
>>>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122612
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Matplotlib-users mailing list
>>>> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>>>> <mailto:Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL,ASP.NET <http://asp.net/>, C# 2012,
>>>> HTML5, CSS,
>>>> MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current
>>>> with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft
>>>> MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at:
>>>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Matplotlib-users mailing list
>>>> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>>>> <mailto:Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS,
>>> MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current
>>> with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft
>>> MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at:
>>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Matplotlib-users mailing list
>>> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>>> <mailto:Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Master Java SE, Java EE, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery
>>> and much more. Keep your Java skills current with LearnJavaNow -
>>> 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Java experts.
>>> SALE $49.99 this month only -- learn more at:
>>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122612
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Matplotlib-users mailing list
>>> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS,
>> MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current
>> with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft
>> MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at:
>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Matplotlib-users mailing list
>> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
>>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS,
> MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current
> with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft
> MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at:
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712
> _______________________________________________
> Matplotlib-users mailing list
> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS,
MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current
with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft
MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at:
http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712
_______________________________________________
Matplotlib-users mailing list
Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS,
MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current
with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft
MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at:
http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712
_______________________________________________
Matplotlib-users mailing list
Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
