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[Matplotlib-users] font name . . .

[sa6113 <s.p...@gm...>]

I want to set font name to 'tahoma.ttf'   this code work propely but is there
any way I don't want to use full path name in fname property.
 
    import matplotlib.font_manager as fm 
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt 

    fig = plt.figure() 
    ax = fig.add_subplot(111) 
    ax.plot([1,2,3], label='test') 

    ax.legend(prop=fm.FontProperties(fname='c:/windows/fonts/tahoma.ttf')) 
    plt.show() 
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] font name . . .

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

You can just do

ax.legend(prop=fm.FontProperties('Tahoma')) 


Cheers,
Mike

sa6113 wrote:
> I want to set font name to 'tahoma.ttf'   this code work propely but is there
> any way I don't want to use full path name in fname property.
>  
>     import matplotlib.font_manager as fm 
>     import matplotlib.pyplot as plt 
>
>     fig = plt.figure() 
>     ax = fig.add_subplot(111) 
>     ax.plot([1,2,3], label='test') 
>
>     ax.legend(prop=fm.FontProperties(fname='c:/windows/fonts/tahoma.ttf')) 
>     plt.show() 
>   

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