Hi
Thanks for the replies. I replaced all the fonts of my script to
Helvetica and it works fine. Yes, I'm using ps.fonttype=3. The files
are pretty small.
But I still couldn't find out why matplotlib was getting that ttf Vera...
Cheers,
Marco
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Michael Droettboom
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Michael Droettboom apparently wrote:
> The closest thing to Arial in the standard PS fonts is
> Helvetica.
OT:
Just a reminder that this is because Arial was designed as
a Helvetica clone for Windows users.
Cheers,
Alan Isaac
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The "useafm" option is designed to work with the 14 standard Postscript
fonts. I suppose it's possible to use a third-party afm, but such a
thing would be extremely rare. The closest thing to Arial in the
standard PS fonts is Helvetica.
But yes, this is a bug, only in that the error message c
Hi everyone
I'm a matplotlib's beginner user and I had a problem that seems to be
a bug. If I enable the option ps.useafm and I ask for a font that is
not available in my OS, the matplotlib's font manager tries to get a
default font, which is Vera (I don't know how the default font is set
to Vera,
