Re: [Matplotlib-users] Agg backend in Windows

[Paul B. <ba...@st...>]

John Hunter wrote:
> 
> ttfquery and FontTools are packages to enable cross platform
> font-finding.  I am very interested in factoring out this dependency
> since it complicates installation (as you are seeing).  [ Perry, if
> anyone in your group is still interested in this, there is a
> reasonably well documented example in cvs examples/ftface_props.py
> that shows how to access all the relevant freetype attributes (family
> name, is italics, etc) using the matplotlib.ft2face module ]

Hi John,

I'm currently working on a replacment for FontTools. I hope to have something 
out in the next day or so.

  -- Paul

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