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I am trying to save a matplotlib plot as a pdf page as shown in this example. Everything is fine until tex fonts are used. That is, I can display plots that use tex fonts, but not save them as a pdf. The error trace (shown below) indicates that I am lacking the font called cmr12.

I am running under Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I have checked that dvipng and gs are installed (and are at the latest version) and the directory where their executables appear is in $PATH. The packages texlive-fonts-recommended and texlive-latex-extra are installed as well, all as per this advice. How do I install the missing font(s)?

EDIT:

  • After not succeeding to install cmr12.ttxthrough the font viewer (see the reply of George and my comment there), I just copied it into /usr/share/fonts/truetype/lyx (where cmr10.ttx already resided) and updated the cache as suggested here. I also cleaned ~/.cache/matplotlib/ and ~/.cache/matplotlib/tex.cache. However, the error persists.
  • I noticed that the file in the trace does not have the .ttf extension... I also noticed that there are files cmr12.pfb and cmr12.pfm in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm. I tried copying these files into the directory from which the python script is run under the name cmr12, but that was not liked...

Here is the trace:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "temp.py", line 45, in <module>
    d['ModDate'] = datetime.datetime.today()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py", line 2435, in __exit__
    self.close()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py", line 2442, in close
    self._file.close()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py", line 547, in close
    self.writeFonts()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py", line 647, in writeFonts
    realpath, stat_key = get_realpath_and_stat(filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib/cbook.py", line 1038, in __call__
    stat = os.stat(realpath)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/meir/Dropbox/temp/cmr12'
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To install:

  1. Get that font here,

  2. After download right click and select open with font viewer

  3. Click install

  4. Now run this: fc-cache -fv to build your font cache files

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