OK, now we at least know where the problem is. I don't get
>> such an error message on my system (rhl9, pygtk-2.0.0). What
>> platform are you on, and what versions of GTK and pygtk are you
>> running? JDH
> W2K, Enthought python 2.3, pygtk 2.0, gtk 2.0
Tracked this one down. Apparently the latest version of GTK for
windows does different font aliasing. This is controlled by the file
c:\gtk\etc\pango\pango.aliases
Try adding the line:
times = "times new roman,angsana new,mingliu,simsun,gulimche,ms gothic,latha,mangal,code2000"
If you get other font messages, adding more font aliases to this file
may help.
I'm making some changes in the gtk backend - mapping times -> serif,
so in the next release of matplotlib this should be fixed
automagically.
JDH