cannot use some fonts on pdf, ps, eps backends

"Andrew Hawryluk" <HAWRYLA@...619...> writes:

Does it help if you set ps.fonttype and pdf.fonttype to 42 in
matplotlibrc?

Yes, that works very well, thanks! However, it now embeds the entire
font rather than a subset. This results in a PDF of 14.4 MB with this
font. I ran it through ghostscript to get a PDF of 24.2 kB with
subsetting, but I'm wondering if I can get subsetting of type 42 fonts
directly from matplotlib?

I'm afraid there's no support for that in the current version, except
probably in the Cairo backend (every time I try to compile pycairo I run
into trouble with some of the dependencies, but if you can get it to
work, it's a very advanced graphics library for producing all sorts of
formats).

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Jouni K. Sepp�nen

Matplotlib only subsets with Type 3 fonts as output. Type 42 is much harder to generate.

We could try generating glyph names when none are available -- anything guaranteed to be unique within the font would be fine. Since I don't run Windows, I need to somehow get access to the problematic font file for testing, though.

Cheers,
Mike

Jouni K. Sepp�nen wrote:

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"Andrew Hawryluk" <HAWRYLA@...619...> writes:

Does it help if you set ps.fonttype and pdf.fonttype to 42 in
matplotlibrc?
      

Yes, that works very well, thanks! However, it now embeds the entire
font rather than a subset. This results in a PDF of 14.4 MB with this
font. I ran it through ghostscript to get a PDF of 24.2 kB with
subsetting, but I'm wondering if I can get subsetting of type 42 fonts
directly from matplotlib?
    
I'm afraid there's no support for that in the current version, except
probably in the Cairo backend (every time I try to compile pycairo I run
into trouble with some of the dependencies, but if you can get it to
work, it's a very advanced graphics library for producing all sorts of
formats).

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Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA