Yes! Thank you!
As extra debugging info, the issue was happening regardless of me choosing
GTK, GTKAgg, and others for backends.
Ben Root
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:45 PM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am getting this runtime error for some of my plotting scripts ever
> since I
> > did a clean build and install of matplotlib from the svn repo:
> >
> > [snip]
> > File "/home/bvr/Programs/matplotlib/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/text.py",
> line
> > 524, in draw
> > bbox, info = self._get_layout(renderer)
> > File "/home/bvr/Programs/matplotlib/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/text.py",
> > line 298, in _get_layout
> > ismath=False)
> > File
> >
> "/home/bvr/Programs/matplotlib/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_gdk.py",
> > line 309, in get_text_width_height_descent
> > layout, inkRect, logicalRect = self._get_pango_layout(s, prop)
> > File
> >
> "/home/bvr/Programs/matplotlib/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_gdk.py",
> > line 283, in _get_pango_layout
> > font_str = '%s, %s %i' % (prop.get_name(), prop.get_style(), size,)
> > File
> >
> "/home/bvr/Programs/matplotlib/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/font_manager.py",
> > line 742, in get_name
> > return ft2font.FT2Font(str(findfont(self))).family_name
> > RuntimeError: Could not open facefile
> > /home/bvr/Programs/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf/Vera.ttf;
> > Cannot_Open_Resource
> >
> > The file exists, and is certainly read-able. The program "Fonty Python"
> > even checked and said that the fonts in that folder were valid, and
> > displayed samples. Looking back at discussion threads before, this error
> has
> > come up before back in 2007:
> >
> http://www.mail-archive.com/mat...@li.../msg05229.html
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> Just a shot in the dark, but does it help to flush the font cache in
> your .matplotlib dir?
>
> > rm -rf ~/.matplotlib/font*.cache
>
> JDH
>
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