Finally found a solution for this -- actually just tried solution from
Piter_ <x....@gm...> in his post -- deleted fontList.cache and it
works. That is, just doing
rcParams['font.family'] = 'Times New Roman'
gives me that font as the default.
Jon
> From: Michael Droettboom <md...@st...>
> > > To: mat...@li...
> > > Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to use different font
> for serif
> > > Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 14:49:09 -0500
> > >
> > > What rcParams are you setting?
> > >
> > > font.family: serif
> > > font.serif: Times New Roman
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > font.family: Times New Roman
> > >
> > > both work for me.
> > >
> > > You have to use the name of the font as specified in the
> file, not
> > > the filename to specify the font (which is probably why
> "times" is
> > > not working for you).
> > >
> > > Mike
>
> I tried both of those and just tried them again and neither
> work for me:
>
> In [2]: rcParams['font.family'] = 'serif'
>
> In [3]: rcParams['font.serif'] = ['Times New Roman']
>
> In [4]: plot([0,1,2])
> Out[4]: [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D object at 0x62d69d0>]
>
> In [5]:
> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py:1242:
> UserWarning: findfont: Font family ['serif'] not found.
> Falling back to
> Bitstream Vera Sans
> (prop.get_family(), self.defaultFamily[fontext]))
>
>
> In [7]: rcParams['font.family'] = 'Times New Roman'
>
> In [8]: plot([0,1,2])
> Out[8]: [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D object at 0x62ff210>]
>
> In [9]:
> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py:1242:
> UserWarning: findfont: Font family ['Times New Roman'] not
> found.
> Falling back to Bitstream Vera Sans
> (prop.get_family(), self.defaultFamily[fontext]))
>
> What is it that tells the font_manager where to look?
>
> Jon
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