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Wrong symbols from a TrueType font #2870
Description
When I figured out that OpenType fonts wouldn't work, I found LucidaBrightRegular.ttf in Java and tried to use it with
matplotlib.rcParams['font.family'] = 'Lucida Bright'
plt.title('abc [def](ghi)')
(I actually need this for something like plt.xlabel('length [cm]').)
But this is what I get in PDF, the closing parenthesis are rotated and displaced (or maybe the wrong symbol is used):
while PNG and native GUI on Mac OS X work fine. I'm using the latest matplotlib (9fea430) with Python 3.3.
Related issue: #2869
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mdboom commented on Mar 18, 2014
This font declares the right bracket and parentheses as a copy of the left bracket with a different affine transformation applied. Unfortunately, our font subsetting tool, ttconv, does not support this case. Using freetype for this (as described in #2869) would probably fix this problem, but I don't think there is an easier fix. As a workaround, setting pdf.fonttype to 42 (to turn off font subsetting) works, or you can use the Cairo backend.
mojca commented on Mar 18, 2014
Thanks a lot for the hint, rcParams['pdf.fonttype'] = 42 saved my day. (I wish I knew about that option earlier, I spent a couple of hours trying to make an OpenType font work.)
Cairo isn't an option as it doesn't support the kind of graphics I'm using in my plot.
jkseppan commented on Aug 1, 2020
Fix in #18081