stix fonts not found fedora 20

If I rely on the system version of matplotlib

python-matplotlib-1.3.0-1.fc20.x86_64

stix fonts are not found

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py:1236: UserWarning:
findfont: Font family ['STIXGeneral'] not found. Falling back to Bitstream Vera
Sans
  (prop.get_family(), self.defaultFamily[fontext]))

No I do:

pip install --user --up matplotlib

And after rm ~/.matplotlib/fontList.cache stix fonts are found.

Now I look in ~/.matplotlib/fontList.cache and I find

/home/nbecker/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-
data/fonts/ttf/STIXGeneralBol.ttf'

So it seems it now works because the font is now installed.

But I already had:

rpm -qa '*stix*'
stix-math-fonts-1.1.0-5.fc20.noarch
texlive-stix-svn29803.1.0-3.fc20.noarch
stix-fonts-1.1.0-5.fc20.noarch

rpm -ql texlive-stix
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/stix/STIXGeneral.otf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/stix/STIXGeneralBol.otf

So it seems, matplotlib requires .ttf format fonts? Or perhaps the system
didn't know how to find the fonts from texlive-stix package?

Yes. matplotlib can not read the otf format fonts that are generally shipped as part of the STIX font packages. You need the ones that come with matplotlib.

Mike

···

On 12/31/2013 11:59 AM, Neal Becker wrote:

If I rely on the system version of matplotlib

python-matplotlib-1.3.0-1.fc20.x86_64

stix fonts are not found

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py:1236: UserWarning:
findfont: Font family ['STIXGeneral'] not found. Falling back to Bitstream Vera
Sans
   (prop.get_family(), self.defaultFamily[fontext]))

No I do:

pip install --user --up matplotlib

And after rm ~/.matplotlib/fontList.cache stix fonts are found.

Now I look in ~/.matplotlib/fontList.cache and I find

/home/nbecker/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-
data/fonts/ttf/STIXGeneralBol.ttf'

So it seems it now works because the font is now installed.

But I already had:

rpm -qa '*stix*'
stix-math-fonts-1.1.0-5.fc20.noarch
texlive-stix-svn29803.1.0-3.fc20.noarch
stix-fonts-1.1.0-5.fc20.noarch

rpm -ql texlive-stix
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/stix/STIXGeneral.otf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/stix/STIXGeneralBol.otf

So it seems, matplotlib requires .ttf format fonts? Or perhaps the system
didn't know how to find the fonts from texlive-stix package?

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