Re: [Matplotlib-users] ANN matplotlib-0.42

[LUK S. <shu...@po...>]

John Hunter wrote:

>>>>>>"LUK" == LUK ShunTim <shu...@po...> writes:
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> 
>     LUK> I have tex installed so I hope I can use quite a lot more
>     LUK> fonts now. Is the path to the .afm files all that is needed?
>     LUK> Do I have to set anything else, for example where to find the
>     LUK> pfa/pfb files? I found that matplotlib spits out warnings
>     LUK> like
> 
> All matplotlib needs is the *.afm files.  It uses this to compute text
> lengths, etc, for layout.  You'll just need to provide the right font
> names to the text commands, perhaps using a font dictionary as in
> examples/text_themes.py.  Your postscript output device will still
> need to know about the fonts of course.  Note that I use a custom font
> matching scheme in backend_ps and I certainly don't claim that it is
> ideal.  So if you encounter strange behavior, let me know.
> 
>     LUK> ** (log_demo.py:1264): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Times
>     LUK> 9.599609375" falling back to "Sans 9.599609375"
> 
> This doesn't look like a backend_ps error.  Have you upgraded to
> matplotlib-0.42.2?  I've reworked text handling in the backends so
> it's hard for me to compare what I've got now without knowing what
> version of matplotlib you're using.
> 
> JDH
> 

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