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

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On Dec 13, 2007 4:01 PM, Orest Kozyar <ore...@gm...> wrote:

> 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
>

Not sure if this is your issue but I had problems with fonts until I
uncommented the RC file in the fonts section of it.  Matplotlib ships with
the RC commented out.  The file matplotlibrc is found in the
matplotlib\mpl-data folder.  You can just edit it with Notepad and uncomment
the lines regarding fonts and try it again.