Thanks Michael! I installed fondu and converted my Helvetica.dfont to .ttf
and put them in /Users/ybendana/Library/Fonts. However, the fontManager was
still picking up the /System/Library/Fonts/Helvetica.dfont. As a
workaround, I edited font_manager.py line 209 in findSystemFonts() to build
the
"Yuri Bendaña" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> For example, the following doesn't work:
> figtext(0.8,0.3,"Large Folds", weight='bold', fontname='Helvetica')
> I only get the default font (I believe it's Vera) and no bold.
Yes, I think that's a known bug. The font manager doesn't know how to
read
Yuri,
A .dfont file can be seen as a collection of .ttf files. A .dfont
generally will contain the regular, bold and italic versions of a font,
but matplotlib is hardcoded to only look at the first of them. So when
you request "sans-serif", you get Helvetica. When you request
"sans-serif:bo
