Please add support for ttc font files (PDF/PS output) #3135
Description
The code posted below will return the following: RuntimeError: TrueType font is missing table . It looks like TTC files have replaced TTF files for many fonts in Windows 8. Please consider adding support. Thanks so much,
MJ
import matplotlib.pyplot as PLT
import pylab as PYLAB
from matplotlib.backends.backend_pdf import PdfPages as PDF
import matplotlib.font_manager as fm
fontFile = r'C:\Windows\Fonts\msyh.ttc'
fp1 = fm.FontProperties(fname=fontFile)
reportFile = r'C:\Temp\TestUnicodeJA.pdf'
pdfOutput = PDF(reportFile)
vals = range(100)
PLT.plot(vals, vals, color = "r", linestyle = "-")
mess = u'\u30c7\u30fc\u30bf\u3092\u8aad\u307f\u8fbc\u3093\u3067\u3044\u307e\u3059....'
PYLAB.xlabel(mess, fontproperties = fp1)
PLT.savefig(pdfOutput, format='pdf')
PLT.close()
pdfOutput.close()