Re: [Matplotlib-users] 0.99.1.2: error in afm.py

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Friday, October 21, 2011, Paul Ivanov <piv...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Rich,
>
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Rich Shepard <rsh...@ap...>
wrote:
>>   After a long hiatus I'm again working on an application and just
upgraded
>> matplotlib from 0.98.5.2 to 0.99.1.2.
>
> Is there a particular reason you just upgraded to a version of
> matplotlib that is almost 2 years old now? Matplotlib 1.1.0 was
> released a few weeks ago, so it's strange that you did not upgrade to
> it, or at least to 1.0.1, which came out in January. I'm not certain
> that the issue you're running into has been fixed, but there have
> certainly been lots of changes. I also want to make sure that there
> isn't some stale pointer to an old version of matplotlib out there -
> so can you let us know what procedure you used to do the upgrade?
>
> best,

Paul,

Apparently, a bunch of the back-n-forth between myself and the OR went
off-list.  The problem is with the AFM font files packaged with mpl.  afm.py
is doing the correct thing by failing to parse an invalid line.  However, I
don't know much about AFM files and where they come from package-wise to
know where to file a bug report.

Cheers,
Ben Root