Re: [Matplotlib-users] mathtext and py2exe

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

It sounds like it is not finding the appropriate fonts.  Have you tried 
installing (in C:\Windows\Fonts) all of the ttf files included with 
matplotlib?

If that's not it, can you provide a complete traceback with the exact 
error message?

Mike

sordnay wrote:
> hello,
> I have written a program which uses matplotlib to plot some figures, it uses
> mathtext to add some special chars (basically just the square on
> acceleration units), and the program works just fine, but using py2exe to
> build a windows executable, it fails somewhere drawing that square symbol. 
> The error the program yields is something like "unable to convert string to
> unicode". 
> Has anyone experienced this kind of problem with mathtext and py2exe or has
> any clue what is needed to be included at the py2exe setup.py to fix it?
> I know this is not the best place for an answer, but I couldn't find where
> to get help on py2exe site :-/ so if anyone could help...
> Thanks a lot.
>
>   

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Michael Droettboom
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