Re: [Matplotlib-users] Getting Matplotlib to Recognize OSX Fonts

2009-10-03 Thread Michiel de Hoon
xt",fontname='Helvetica') I'm not sure if the MacOSX native backend is included in fink's distribution, though. --Michiel. --- On Fri, 10/2/09, Buz Barstow wrote: > From: Buz Barstow > Subject: [Matplotlib-users] Getting Matplotlib to Recognize OSX Fonts > To:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Getting Matplotlib to Recognize OSX Fonts

2009-10-02 Thread Michael Droettboom
matplotlib should pick up your installed fonts on OS-X --- but matplotlib only supports TrueType (and some OpenType) fonts. It won't work with Type 1 fonts -- it that what those particular ones are? Are you not able to use any of your installed fonts, or only some of them? Cheers, Mike On 10

[Matplotlib-users] Getting Matplotlib to Recognize OSX Fonts

2009-10-02 Thread Buz Barstow
Dear All, I'm trying to get matplotlib to use some of my MacOSX fonts (Helvetica and Times) so that I can produce plots with these two fonts. I'm using matplotlib installed with fink on MacOSX 10.5.8, and using XQuartz 2.4.0. Has anyone tried to do this, and can they point me to a procedure