Re: [Matplotlib-users] Agg backend in Windows

[Dominique O. <do...@da...>]

* On Tue, 02 Mar 2004, John Hunter wrote:

> Critically, you should also have
> c:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\FontTools.pth.  I am pretty certain it
> is in the windows installer.  This file should contain one line, which
> reads simply 
> 
> FontTools
> 
> If you don't have it I would like to know!  

I don't have it actually. It is on neither of my Windows installs.
Can i just create it?

I haven't seen any other user complain about this. Could this come from
an upgrade of matplotlib? During the upgrade, it seems to be backing up
stuff but who knows what it is doing exactly.
 
> All of this is consistent with a missing FontTools.pth.  ttfquery will
> try and load each windows font, but catches all exceptions and
> continues.  So you'll get an exception *for each font* the first time
> you load ttfquery if something is wrong with your install.  After you
> have fixed fontools, be sure to remove site-packages/font.cache so
> ttfquery can regenerate the font cache.

The font.cache is in site-packages/ttfquery, i presume this is correct?
 
> Agg is a pure image backend - ie, it only produces image output.  In
> the next release of matplotlib (this week) there will are 2 GUI
> backends that use agg for rendering GtkAgg and TkAgg, both of which
> are compiled into the windows installer.

Great!
 
Thanks much,
Dominique