[Matplotlib-users] Rendering of fonts in plots does not honor user-specified parameters

[Orest K. <ore...@gm...>]

I've been trying to set the font properties of the plots that I've
been making with matplotlib; however, there appears to be a problem
with font rendering.  For example, when I check the properties of text
on the axes, etc, the font class is set to serif; however, the font in
the plot does not appear to be serif.  I ran several of the font demos
in the matplotlib examples directory, and the fonts all looked the
same (except for size).  Attached is the PNG of the fonts_demo.py
output.

The only way I was able to get serif fonts was if I call:

rc('text', usetex=True), and even then this only changes the fonts on
the axis tick labels.  xlabel, ylabel still remain sans-serif.

I'm sure I am missing something obvious, but have read through all the
documentation available on the matplotlib website regarding fonts, and
they don't seem to indicate that I need to install anything else.

This is Python 2.5 on Windows XP.

Thanks,
Orest