Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to use different font for serif

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

What rcParams are you setting?

font.family: serif
font.serif: Times New Roman

and

font.family: Times New Roman

both work for me.

You have to use the name of the font as specified in the file, not the 
filename to specify the font (which is probably why "times" is not 
working for you).

Mike

On 12/05/2011 01:38 PM, Jonathan Slavin wrote:
> Tony,
>
> Thanks for your answer.  I'm running on CentOS Linux.  Unfortunately
> there is no such command as font_manager.X11InstalledFonts(), though
> there is font_manager.x11FontDirectory().  When I do that I get a list
> with a bunch of directories including '/usr/share/msttcorefonts', which
> contains the times.ttf which has the Times New Roman font I wanted.  And
> by doing things like:
> fprop = font_manager.FontProperties(fname=
>          '/usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/times.ttf')
> set_xlabel('X title',fontproperties=fprop)
> xticklabels = plt.getp(plt.gca(), 'xticklabels')
> plt.setp(xticklabels, fontproperties=fprop)
>
> I can get the fonts I want for xlabel, ylabel, etc., but I still can't
> get that font set as the default font (using, for example 'times' for
> the value for serif, or for family).  For some reason setting the
> rcParam doesn't work.  In the context in which it's invoked to find the
> font, the font manager can't find it.  So far I haven't been able to
> track down the problem.
>
> Jon
>
> On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 17:30 -0500, Tony Yu wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Jonathan Slavin
>> <js...@cf...>  wrote:
>>          Hi all,
>>
>>          I've been trying to use a different serif font for a plot and
>>          have been
>>          running into problems.  I thought I could just do something
>>          like:
>>
>>          from matplotlib import rc
>>          rc('font', family='serif', serif='Times New Roman')
>>
>>          but if I try that I end up getting:
>>          findfont: Font family ['serif'] not found. Falling back to
>>          Bitstream
>>          Vera Sans
>>
>>          It works fine without the serif='...' part and gives me the
>>          default
>>          serif font.  I know that Times New Roman exists on my system
>>          -- at least
>>          the GNOME character map can find it.  Perhaps I need to use a
>>          different
>>          alias (but what would it be?).  Any help would appreciated.
>>
>>          Jon
>>
>>
>> You should check what fonts are installed on your system:
>>
>>>>> from matplotlib import font_manager
>>>>> font_manager.OSXInstalledFonts()
>> (or if you're on a different system, try MSInstalledFonts or
>> X11InstalledFonts---those aren't available on my system, but
>> presumably that's just because I'm using OSX). If that works, then
>> look for Times New Roman in what's printed out. If it is, the problem
>> may be that it's not the right format: it appears as if the
>> font_manager only supports .ttf and .afm fonts.
>>
>> If you don't see Times New Roman in any of those files, check the
>> output of
>>
>>>>> mpl.font_manager.OSXFontDirectories
>> (replacing OSX with MS or X11, if needed). If the listed directories
>> doesn't match your installation of Times New Roman, that's your
>> problem. (I'm not sure if there's a good way of adding directories.)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Tony
>>
>
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