Re: [matplotlib-devel] stix fonts not found fedora 20

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

Yes.  matplotlib can not read the otf format fonts that are generally 
shipped as part of the STIX font packages.  You need the ones that come 
with matplotlib.

Mike

On 12/31/2013 11:59 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
> If I rely on the system version of matplotlib
>
> python-matplotlib-1.3.0-1.fc20.x86_64
>
> stix fonts are not found
>
> /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py:1236: UserWarning:
> findfont: Font family ['STIXGeneral'] not found. Falling back to Bitstream Vera
> Sans
>    (prop.get_family(), self.defaultFamily[fontext]))
>
> No I do:
>
> pip install --user --up matplotlib
>
> And after rm ~/.matplotlib/fontList.cache  stix fonts are found.
>
> Now I look in ~/.matplotlib/fontList.cache and I find
>
> /home/nbecker/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-
> data/fonts/ttf/STIXGeneralBol.ttf'
>
> So it seems it now works because the font is now installed.
>
> But I already had:
>
> rpm -qa '*stix*'
> stix-math-fonts-1.1.0-5.fc20.noarch
> texlive-stix-svn29803.1.0-3.fc20.noarch
> stix-fonts-1.1.0-5.fc20.noarch
>
> rpm -ql texlive-stix
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/stix/STIXGeneral.otf
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/stix/STIXGeneralBol.otf
>
> So it seems, matplotlib requires .ttf format fonts?  Or perhaps the system
> didn't know how to find the fonts from texlive-stix package?
>
>
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