Hi, Some colleagues have sent some plots which they generated using IDL (boo!!! hiss!! :D), and they look quite dissimilar to my matplotlib ones. I would like to mimic their layout as much as possible, which so far is a success. The only problem is that I don't know what font to use. In IDL, I believe it is called "Roman" (there's an smudged example here: <http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~warner/IDL5220/HW4w.jpg>). Does anyone know a suitable alternative? Thanks! Jose
IDL uses the Hershey vector fonts <http://www.ifi.uio.no/it/latex-links/STORE/opt/rsi/idl/help/online_help/Hershey_Vector_Font_Samples.html> The problem is that these are not trutype fonts, so the easiest solution is probably to find some free sans-serif font that looks close to Hershey on a free font site. HTH, Gary R. Jose Gomez-Dans wrote: > Hi, > Some colleagues have sent some plots which they generated using IDL > (boo!!! hiss!! :D), and they look quite dissimilar to my matplotlib > ones. I would like to mimic their layout as much as possible, which so > far is a success. The only problem is that I don't know what font to > use. In IDL, I believe it is called "Roman" (there's an smudged > example here: <http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~warner/IDL5220/HW4w.jpg>). > Does anyone know a suitable alternative? > > Thanks! > Jose
It depends exacly what you need, but this might help: Ghostscript comes with the Hershey fonts. You should be able to choose an appropriate font name in Matplotlib, e.g. Hershey-Gothic-English, and produce a Postscript file using an appropriate backend. You should then be able to convert that to one of any number of formats (bitmaps and PDF) using Ghostscript. Note the use of the word should, I haven't tried this myself! - Andrew Gary Ruben wrote: > IDL uses the Hershey vector fonts > <http://www.ifi.uio.no/it/latex-links/STORE/opt/rsi/idl/help/online_help/Hershey_Vector_Font_Samples.html> > > The problem is that these are not trutype fonts, so the easiest solution > is probably to find some free sans-serif font that looks close to > Hershey on a free font site. > > HTH, > Gary R. > > Jose Gomez-Dans wrote: > >> Hi, >> Some colleagues have sent some plots which they generated using IDL >> (boo!!! hiss!! :D), and they look quite dissimilar to my matplotlib >> ones. I would like to mimic their layout as much as possible, which so >> far is a success. The only problem is that I don't know what font to >> use. In IDL, I believe it is called "Roman" (there's an smudged >> example here: <http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~warner/IDL5220/HW4w.jpg>). >> Does anyone know a suitable alternative? >> >> Thanks! >> Jose >>
On 01/11/2007, Jose Gomez-Dans <jgo...@gm...> wrote: > Hi, > Some colleagues have sent some plots which they generated using IDL > (boo!!! hiss!! :D), and they look quite dissimilar to my matplotlib > ones. I would like to mimic their layout as much as possible, which so > far is a success. The only problem is that I don't know what font to > use. In IDL, I believe it is called "Roman" (there's an smudged > example here: <http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~warner/IDL5220/HW4w.jpg>). > Does anyone know a suitable alternative? Not quite the answer you were looking for, but a completely different approach, if you can ask them to resend the data, is to get them to save out a postscript file, which IDL can do. Then you can edit the components with a tool like inkscape and standardise the fonts across all graphs. Angus. -- AJC McMorland, PhD Student Physiology, University of Auckland
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