Re: [Matplotlib-users] Trouble with fonts
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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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Trouble with fonts
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.ttfSTIXSizThreeSymBol.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.afmSymbol.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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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Trouble with fonts
Those *.afm fonts are only available in the postscript backend when
ps.usecorefonts is set to True. Otherwise, you have to use
TrueType/OpenType fonts.
Mike
On 09/25/2012 12:11 PM, Steven Boada wrote:
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.ttfSTIXSizThreeSymBol.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.afmSymbol.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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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Trouble with fonts
I have fixed it. Or, I have a better handle on what the stupid thing is
doing. LOL.
The problem was a couple of things.
1. Michael was right. There was no file named Helvetica.ttf installed
on my machine.
2. The path were I thought MPL was looking for files wasn't the right
path. I thought it was looking in the mpl-data/fonts/ttf directory...
Which it does. But it ALSO looks in system's font directories. So I was
finding fonts that weren't in the mpl-data directory. This was very
confusing.
3. I was generally angry at it.
Now, if you want to change the font, just look in the system's font
directory, pick the one you want, and then change the font.family name.
It will change everything else. Easy as pie.
On Tue Sep 25 15:59:10 2012, Steven Boada wrote:
I fail to understand what I am doing wrong and how I supposed to fix it
using backend :TkAgg
Again in ipython, after I have imported rc from matplotlib...
In [5]: rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']})
In [6]: figure()
Out[6]: matplotlib.figure.Figure at 0x104bc6890
In [7]: xlabel('z')
Out[7]: matplotlib.text.Text at 0x104bd05d0
In [8]:
/opt/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py:1214:
UserWarning: findfont: Font family ['sans-serif'] not found. Falling
back to Bitstream Vera Sans
(prop.get_family(), self.defaultFamily[fontext]))
This fails...
In [8]: rc('font',**{'family':'serif','serif':['times new roman']})
In [9]: xlabel('z')
Out[9]: matplotlib.text.Text at 0x104bd05d0
This works fine. The labels on the plot change and everything. Neither
of these two fonts are located in the ttf directory. Both seem to be in
the pdfcorefonts directory, and both have afm extensions..
This should not be this hard...
Steven
On 9/25/12 1:04 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
Those *.afm fonts are only available in the postscript backend when
ps.usecorefonts is set to True. Otherwise, you have to use
TrueType/OpenType fonts.
Mike
On 09/25/2012 12:11 PM, Steven Boada wrote:
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.ttfSTIXSizThreeSymBol.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.afmSymbol.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
