Okay, fair enough.
But do you have any ideas, how to force the PS creator to use a different
font?
Say -> font Times-Bold
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Thomas Sprinzing <
sprinz...@hdm-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> I'd say it's got nearly nothing to do with matplotlib.
>
> The question is: will the font be included in the .ps and in the .pdf?
>
> If not, which is most likely, it's upon the renderer to decide what to do
> if the requested glyph in the requested font is present or not in the
> system.
>
> pdf is more likely to have the fonts / glyphs used also embeded in the
> pdf. One reason for them to be bigger than .ps. Ps, on the other hand, most
> of the times relys on the renderer to have the exact same font, referenced
> by name, pre-loaded in the system. Go figure.
>
> To sum it up: use the old 7-bit equivalent for the degree sign, not any
> fancydancy UTF-8 character that is commonly not included in ye olde style
> postscript standard font embedded into your laser printer waaaay back then
> in the last millenium...
>
> Am 26.02.2013 um 21:26 schrieb Gökhan Sever:
>
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Pierre Haessig <
> pierre.haes...@crans.org> wrote:
> > Le 26/02/2013 14:38, Gökhan Sever a écrit :
> >>
> >> Could you test my outputs if they look fine on your side?
> >>
> >> http://atmos.uwyo.edu/~gsever/data/matplotlib/test.pdf
> >> http://atmos.uwyo.edu/~gsever/data/matplotlib/test.ps
> >>
> > Good idea !
> >
> > * your PDF file looks fine with Okular
> > * your PS indeed has the problem you describe (again Okular) :
> > - "°" (degree sign) is fine
> > - but "⁰" (zero superscript) is replaced by "?"
> >
> > In case it may explain the difference : I'm using mpl 1.1.1rc2 from
> Debian testing
> > and I have the following line in my matplotlibrc (is it relevant ???)
> >
> > font.sans-serif : DejaVu Sans, sans-serif
> >
> > Best,
> > Pierre
> >
> > My matplotlib is a git clone of a couple weeks old.
> >
> > There is this line in the PS file (opening via vim)
> >
> > %%BeginResource: font KDYSTE+NewCenturySchlbk-Roman
> >
> > don't know where it gets this.
> >
> > #font.serif : DejaVu Serif, Bitstream Vera Serif, New Century
> Schoolbook, Century Schoolbook L, Utopia, ITC Bookman, Bookman, Nimbus
> Roman No9 L, Times New Roman, Times, Palatino, Charter, serif
> > font.sans-serif : DejaVu Sans, Bitstream Vera Sans, Lucida Grande,
> Verdana, Geneva, Lucid, Arial, Helvetica, Avant Garde, sans-serif
> >
> > PS uses that even I choose to use fot.sans-serif.
> >
> > Dont see any font specification in the PDF file.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Gökhan
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