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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Test faliures after merging the decxx branch (#3646)","articleBody":"After merging #3646 I see a bunch of failures like this one with python 3.4.1:\n\n``` python\n======================================================================\nERROR: matplotlib.tests.test_artist.test_cull_markers\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/nose/case.py\", line 198, in runTest\n    self.test(*self.arg)\n  File \"/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.4.2_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/matplotlib-1.5.x-py3.4-macosx-10.10-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/testing/decorators.py\", line 110, in wrapped_function\n    func(*args, **kwargs)\n  File \"/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.4.2_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/matplotlib-1.5.x-py3.4-macosx-10.10-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/tests/test_artist.py\", line 139, in test_cull_markers\n    fig.savefig(pdf, format=\"pdf\")\n  File \"/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.4.2_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/matplotlib-1.5.x-py3.4-macosx-10.10-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/figure.py\", line 1470, in savefig\n    self.canvas.print_figure(*args, **kwargs)\n  File \"/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.4.2_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/matplotlib-1.5.x-py3.4-macosx-10.10-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backend_bases.py\", line 2194, in print_figure\n    **kwargs)\n  File \"/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.4.2_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/matplotlib-1.5.x-py3.4-macosx-10.10-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py\", line 2474, in print_pdf\n    file.close()\n  File \"/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.4.2_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/matplotlib-1.5.x-py3.4-macosx-10.10-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py\", line 525, in close\n    self.writeFonts()\n  File \"/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.4.2_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/matplotlib-1.5.x-py3.4-macosx-10.10-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py\", line 628, in writeFonts\n    fonts[Fx] = self.embedTTF(realpath, chars[1])\n  File \"/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.4.2_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/matplotlib-1.5.x-py3.4-macosx-10.10-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py\", line 1056, in embedTTF\n    pclt = font.get_sfnt_table('pclt') or {'capHeight': 0, 'xHeight': 0}\nUnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\n```\n\nI.e. a large number of pdf tests using fonts fails. Not sure why travis doesn't hit this.\n\nThis is on OSX 10.10 with python installed from homebrew. The tests passes with Python 2.7 \n\nI did not test with python 3 before the merge. \n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/jenshnielsen","@type":"Person","name":"jenshnielsen"},"datePublished":"2014-10-18T09:46:08.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/3669/matplotlib/issues/3669"}