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Re: [Matplotlib-users] another pango font error

[Gary R. <ga...@em...>]

Hi Darren,
If this is a Windows font problem as John suggests, a recent post of mine may be relevant to you. Here it is reproduced since the mailing list archive seems to have broken. It would be interesting to know whether option B also fixes your problem. If it does, can you let the list know:

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I just installed Gimp 2 for windows along with the latest GTK+
runtime and noticed that it exhibited the same font problem I've been
experiencing for ages with matplotlib. I was getting WARNING **:
Couldn't load font "MS Sans Serif 8" falling back to
"Sans 8" errors. It's addressed in their FAQ, <http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/faq.html>,
 reproduced here:

# I installed Gimp 2.0 on Windows 9x/ME or NT 4, and I'm getting a
lot of messages saying ** (gimp-2.0.exe:4294830849): WARNING **:
Couldn't load font "MS Sans Serif 8" falling back to
"Sans 8". What should I do?
# You have two options:
* Go to Control Panel->Display properties->Apperance tab, and
set all fonts to Tahoma (or any other TrueType font).
* Uninstall GTK+ 2.2.4, then re-install it without the GTK-Wimp
component.

I took option B and now all is well with both Gimp and Matplotlib.
I'm running Win98 and the Gimp FAQ entry hints that it may be a
problem in Win98,ME and NT installations. It might be worth adding
this to the Matplotlib faq page next to the "On windows with
GTK, I'm getting lots of messages about not finding the Times
font" entry.

Gary
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] another pango font error

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

>Gary forwarded:
>* Go to Control Panel->Display properties->Apperance tab, and
>set all fonts to Tahoma (or any other TrueType font).

Interesting, I since am getting complaints about the Tahoma fonts.

I added this line to pango.aliases, and it seems to have worked:
tahoma = "times new roman,angsana new,mingliu,simsun,gulimche,ms 
gothic,latha,mangal,code2000"