Re: [Matplotlib-users] Using helvetica latex fonts...

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

On Saturday 21 January 2006 7:14 pm, Fernando Perez wrote:
> AND, even worse, I'm getting consistently that if I select
>
> font.latex.package  : helvetica
>
> produces a nasty error (I can send the full tb if needed):
[...]
> RuntimeError: _image_module::readpng could not open PNG file
> /home/fperez/.matplotlib/tex.cache/4c6661ae3b1f9211424cf72e05973891_120.png
> for reading


Oh, helvetica is not a valid package, so latex fails and dvipng is unable to 
produce the png file. I think you are looking for the "helvet" package. I 
should go through texmf/tex/latex/ and make a list of all the valid font 
packages for latex, and include the list in the rc file.

Darren