[Matplotlib-users] font problems after compiling 0.80 from source on os x

[George N. <ag...@no...>]

I believe I have got all the prerequisites, but it might not be so...

old Powerbook, 400 MHz, 10.3.9.

zlib, libpng, tk_inter, freetype 2.1.9, wx-2.6-mac-unicode, standard  
Apple Python 2.3, updated to MacPython, Numeric.

matplotlib compiled & installed apparently fine. No warnings that I  
could see.


Fairly drastic problem occurs when I do
import from pylab *
in the python shell.

1. get stream of warnings about  type 1 fonts...
e.g.
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/ 
site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py:465: UserWarning: Could not  
open font file /Users/agn/Library/Fonts/Euclid Math Two
   warnings.warn("Could not open font file %s"%fpath)
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/ 
site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py:465: UserWarning: Could not  
open font file /Library/Fonts/EucliSymIta
  Think I can understand why this might be, as neither TT or X11.

One only of the .dfonts in /System/Library/Fonts fails--
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/ 
site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py:465: UserWarning: Could not  
open font file /System/Library/Fonts/LastResort.dfont
   warnings.warn("Could not open font file %s"%fpath)
  -- no warnings from rest of .dfonts.

2. More seriously, loading from pylab fails with FontManager error:

raceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/local/bin/ipython", line 28, in ?
     IPython.Shell.start().mainloop()
   File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/site-packages/IPython/Shell.py", line 809, in start
     return shell()
   File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/site-packages/IPython/Shell.py", line 740, in __init__
      
IPShell.__init__(self,argv,user_ns,debug,shell_class=MatplotlibShell)
   File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/site-packages/IPython/Shell.py", line 54, in __init__
     shell_class=shell_class)
   File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/site-packages/IPython/ipmaker.py", line 85, in make_IPython
     IP = shell_class('__IP',user_ns=user_ns,**kw)
   File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/site-packages/IPython/Shell.py", line 493, in __init__
     user_ns,b2 = self._matplotlib_config(name)
   File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/site-packages/IPython/Shell.py", line 373, in  
_matplotlib_config
     from matplotlib import backends
   File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/__init__.py", line 19, in ?
     globals(),locals(),[backend_name])
   File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_tkagg.py", line 9,  
in ?
     from backend_agg import FigureCanvasAgg
   File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_agg.py", line 82,  
in ?
     from matplotlib.figure import Figure
   File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py", line 3, in ?
     from axes import Axes, Subplot, PolarSubplot, PolarAxes
   File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line 12, in ?
     from axis import XAxis, YAxis
   File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/axis.py", line 20, in ?
     from font_manager import FontProperties
   File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 991, in ?
     fontManager = FontManager()
   File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 835, in  
__init__
     rebuild()
   File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 828, in  
rebuild
     self.ttfdict = createFontDict(self.ttffiles)
   File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 467, in  
createFontDict
     prop = ttfFontProperty(font)
   File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 347, in  
ttfFontProperty
     size = str(float(font.get_fontsize()))
AttributeError: get_fontsize


Anybody have any idea of what I have missed doing?

Regards, George Nurser.