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

[Rich S. <rsh...@ap...>]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Paul Ivanov wrote:

> those two properties should not have spaces in them - according the the
> AFM file spec that I could find - they should be one word - which is what
> matplotlib expects - and this is the source of all of the "'Found an
> unknown keyword in AFM header (was Underline)" warning that you saw.

Paul,

   That specific font is apparently kid oriented (not surprising as it comes
from Corel a long time ago). I can delete it and never miss it.

>> C 127 ; WX 262 ; N  ; B 64 506 246 730 ;
>
> I still find it strange that this character is even in the font file
> - maybe it had a value other than just space, but copy pasting made it
> appear as such? Please resend the file as an attachement so we can
> verify.
>
> In the meantime - this patch should get around trying to parse any
> such files without causing tracebacks
>
> in lib/matplotlib/afm.py, after the line that says 'if
> line.startswith('Comment'): continue' add another line that says 'if
> line.startswith('C 127'): continue'

   OK. Done.

> If this was really the case, we should not have been seeing "Found an
> unknown keyword in AFM header (was Underline)" for the afm files that
> ship with matplotlib (but we were on your machine - so something
> changed them).
>
> Please diff your pagko8a.afm against
> https://raw.github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/master/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/afm/pagko8a.afm

   There's no difference between
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/afm/pagko8a.afm
and the pagko8a.afm I downloaded from github.

Thanks,

Rich