Re: [matplotlib-devel] FontProperties being ignored...

2010-03-05 Thread Michael Droettboom
It should also be noted that attributes like weight and stretch are only hints for the purpose of finding a font. That is, if you request a bold version of a font, and it does not exist, the closest matching font will be used instead. matplotlib (more specifically freetype) does not do font

[matplotlib-devel] FontProperties being ignored...

2010-03-04 Thread James Evans
All, I just submitted bug #2963827 detailing this, but thought that I would echo the problem here. When plotting annotations and specifying the FontProperties to use, the specified values are completely ignored. See the attached script and image for an example. Am I doing something

Re: [matplotlib-devel] FontProperties being ignored...

2010-03-04 Thread Jae-Joon Lee
Do you have fonts whose family name is sans serif? Maybe you meant sans-serif? sans-serif searches for fonts whose family name is in rcParams[font.sans-serif], but sans serif only search for sans serif. I don't think it has anything to do with annotation. Check if findfont gives you a correct