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

[Fernando P. <Fer...@co...>]

Darren Dale wrote:
> 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.

Ah, sorry, my fault then!  Yes, listing the correct latex font package names 
in the rc file would be good, I was going on memory and typed the wrong one.

Many thanks for your efforts on this problem: I won't be able to look at this 
today, but I will again soon.

Regards,


f