Re: [Matplotlib-users] font setting in matplotlib 1.3.1

2014-01-27 Thread Vlastimil Brom
Many thanks for the fix as well as for the info! I didn't know, there are built in fonts like this in matplotlib; this would explain the issue - the character support of Bitstream Vera Sans is indeed rather limited; morover the special "defaulting" status of this font hopefully means, that this sho

Re: [Matplotlib-users] font setting in matplotlib 1.3.1

2014-01-27 Thread Michael Droettboom
Thanks for the report. Indeed, you are correct in that the root of this problem is that "Bitstream Vera Sans" does not contain these characters, yet it is being selected erroneously. It does appear that there is a bug in the font selection algorithm, that "Bitstream Vera Sans" gets selected

Re: [Matplotlib-users] segmentation fault and / or bus error with script that cranks out plots with TkAgg backend

2014-01-27 Thread Phil Elson
This is a bit of a surprise. Sounds like it could have something to do with matplotlib's build, or that of some of its dependencies, so may need reporting to Gentoo once we've dug a little further. It could be a really tricky one to diagnose without being able to reproduce locally, but - is the loo

Re: [Matplotlib-users] font setting in matplotlib 1.3.1

2014-01-27 Thread Phil Elson
Thanks for this Vlastimil, looks like there is either a subtlety beyond my font knowledge or a bug here - mdboom, did you have any ideas? Otherwise I think we need a github issue for this. Cheers, On 4 January 2014 19:37, Vlastimil Brom wrote: > Hi all, > after upgrading to matplotlib 1.3.1, I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Remove backgroundimage

2014-01-27 Thread Phil Elson
As with most other artists, you should be able to just call remove on the resulting artist. e.g. im = plt.imshow(...) ... im.remove() HTH On 2 January 2014 11:58, flambert wrote: > Hi, > > Does somebody knows how can I remove a backgroundimage. I set the image > with > imshow. > > regards

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Runtime error

2014-01-27 Thread Phil Elson
Hi Kai, I'm afraid I've never heard of this one. Do you have a full error log? Thanks, On 26 January 2014 02:40, wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm trying to use matplotlib to generate pictures for my website view. The > framwork I use is pyramid. But I got an error when I try to refresh my page > two