Re: [Matplotlib-users] Savefig('file.pdf') error with latex custom font

[Jouni K. S. <jk...@ik...>]

"David Krapohl" <dav...@gm...>
writes:

> I am getting an error with savefig and pdf when I try to used matplotlib
> with latex font rendering (attached below). In etc/matplotlibrc, I set
> text.latex.preamble : \usepackage{MinionPro},
> \renewcommand{\sfdefault}{Myriad-LF}
> It seems that the dviread backend does not find a specific *.vf,
> MinionPro-It--lcdfj.vf to be specific,
>  file that is not needed in my opinion. Any ideas how to solve that?

Is that a commercial font? What exact files are installed when you
install that font in your texmf tree? Can dvipdfm/dvipdfmx/dvipdft
create a pdf file from a dvi file that uses this font?

>From your backtrace, it looks like dviread fails to parse a tfm file:

>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 398,
> in __init__
>     for char in range(0, max(tfm.width)) ]
> ValueError: max() arg is an empty sequence

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