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MichaelAdolph

opened on Sep 29, 2014

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Hi,
I was asked to file an Issue here on github, although I'm not sure if the problem is not in front of my PC... .

from pylab import *
from math import sin
rc('text', usetex = False)
la = matplotlib.font_manager.FontManager()
lu = matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties(family = 'Heuristica')
print la.findfont(lu)
x = np.arange(0,5,0.1)
y = map(sin,x)
title('This is an unnecessary title', family = 'Heuristica')
plot(x,y)
show()

As a result I get (besides a graph using an unwanted font):

C:\Windows\Fonts\Heuristica-Regular.otf
C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\font_manager.py:1279: UserWarning: findfont: Font   family ['Heuristica'] not found. Falling back to Bitstream Vera Sans
(prop.get_family(), self.defaultFamily[fontext]))

If I add Heuristica on first spot of the serif-font-Types this will also not work, (i. e. font.serif : Heuristica, Bitstream Vera Serif)

I am using matplotlib 1.4.0 and Python 2.7.6, I asked this question on StackOverflow first

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1. tacaswell

   added this to the v1.4.x milestone on Sep 29, 2014
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   OS: Microsoft

   on Sep 29, 2014
3. mdboom commented on Sep 29, 2014

   

   mdboom

   on Sep 29, 2014

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   When you add new fonts to your system, you need to delete your fontList.cache file in order for matplotlib to find them.

   The reason it works on lines 4/5 in your example is because you are creating a FontManager from scratch (which goes out to the filesystem and hunts down all the fonts). Internally, when matplotlib later does its own font lookup, it is using a FontManager that has been loaded from a cache on disk in the fontList.cache file.

   Long term, we have plans to switch to using the font lookup mechanisms of the OS to get around this problem, (see MEP14), but in the meantime, you'll need to remove the fontList.cache file everytime you want matplotlib to discover new fonts.

   Reacted by Jaehoon Lee and Davide Zanin
4. mdboom

   closed this as completedon Sep 29, 2014
5. MichaelAdolph commented on Sep 29, 2014

   

   MichaelAdolph

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   Perfect! That trick did it. the fontList.cache is located at Home/.matplotlib

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6. tacaswell commented on Sep 29, 2014

   

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   Blah, should have known that...

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7. liuyang1 commented on May 17, 2015

   

   liuyang1

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   maybe also /tmp/xdgcache/matplotlib directory in 1.4.2 version
8. bastelflp commented on Nov 28, 2015

   

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   The matplotlib font cache can be found here:
   Win7: %userprofile%\.matplotlib\
   Ubuntu: ~/.cache/matplotlib

   Reacted by Marco Borgeaud, Antoine Jeannot, ashleylid, Michael P Schroeder, Thomas David Baker, [LGAIR] Sejong Yang and Niklas

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10. ashleylid commented on May 25, 2017

    

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    This is closed so apologies for raising it again. This is not working for me, matplotlib version: 1.5.1.
11. WeatherGod commented on May 25, 2017

    

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    At the least, please try version 1.5.3. It has a lot of fixes that might address your issue. There has also been some more work on font handling for 2.0.x and master.

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