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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"RuntimeError In FT2Font with NISC18030.ttf","articleBody":"We're trying to fix the font in our MPL scripts to avoid PNG and PDF images changing depending on who produced it (Linux / Mac machines, different MPL versions).\n\nSo our idea was to find one font that everyone has and set that font.\nHow can I find out if I have 'Bitstream Vera Sans' (or some other font) available in my MPL install?\n\nI tried this and got a RunTimeError.\nIs this a bug or am I doing it wrong?\n\n```\nIn [1]: %paste\nimport matplotlib.font_manager\nflist = matplotlib.font_manager.get_fontconfig_fonts()\nnames = [matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties(fname=fname).get_name() for fname in flist]\nprint('Bitstream Vera Sans' in names)\n\n## -- End pasted text --\n/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py:273: UserWarning: Matplotlib is building the font cache using fc-list. This may take a moment.\n  warnings.warn('Matplotlib is building the font cache using fc-list. This may take a moment.')\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\nRuntimeError                              Traceback (most recent call last)\n\u003cipython-input-1-d6f6752cbc94\u003e in \u003cmodule\u003e()\n      1 import matplotlib.font_manager\n      2 flist = matplotlib.font_manager.get_fontconfig_fonts()\n----\u003e 3 names = [matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties(fname=fname).get_name() for fname in flist]\n      4 print('Bitstream Vera Sans' in names)\n\n\u003cipython-input-1-d6f6752cbc94\u003e in \u003clistcomp\u003e(.0)\n      1 import matplotlib.font_manager\n      2 flist = matplotlib.font_manager.get_fontconfig_fonts()\n----\u003e 3 names = [matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties(fname=fname).get_name() for fname in flist]\n      4 print('Bitstream Vera Sans' in names)\n\n/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py in get_name(self)\n    735         properties.\n    736         \"\"\"\n--\u003e 737         return ft2font.FT2Font(findfont(self)).family_name\n    738 \n    739     def get_style(self):\n\nRuntimeError: In FT2Font: Could not set the fontsize\n```\n\nPython 3.5 and MPL 1.5.3 from Macports on macOS.\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/cdeil","@type":"Person","name":"cdeil"},"datePublished":"2016-10-19T12:48:58.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":7},"url":"https://github.com/7305/matplotlib/issues/7305"}