On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Mark Janikas wrote:
> I downloaded DejaVu Sans and pointed to that ttf file, and no love L…
> Again, the default font seems to work for English, French, German, Spanish,
> Italian other Euros etal… but Chinese and Arabic either come out blank
> (default font, Deja
From: Michael Droettboom [mailto:md...@stsci.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 6:56 AM
To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] rendering unicode using the PDF backend
It looks like perhaps we'll need to "synthesize" glyph names if they aren
It looks like perhaps we'll need to "synthesize" glyph names if they
aren't provided in the font (though it's not clear to me why they are
not). This will be difficult to test for, as that's a proprietary
font. Have you tried using another Unicode font, such as DejaVu Sans?
Mike
On 02/06/20
Hi All,
I am having trouble rendering my Unicode strings in matplotlib using the PDF
backend. When I use certain fonts (like the Win 7 default), I get no
complaints but the characters are not rendered When I use a font like Arial
Unicode MS, that I know contains all the chars, then I get
