font size issue (an integer is required)

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run gantt example
from svgplotlib.Gantt import *
items = []
items.append(Duration('Item 1', date(2009, 1, 4), date(2009, 8, 10), '90%'))
items.append(Duration('Item 2', date(2009, 3, 11), date(2009, 8, 17), '50%'))
items.append(Duration('Item 3', date(2009, 4, 18), date(2009, 8, 24), '70%'))
items.append(Duration('Item 4', date(2009, 5, 25), date(2009, 8, 31), '10%'))
items.append(Duration('Item 4', date(2009, 5, 25), date(2009, 9, 27), '25%'))

gantt = Gantt(items)


What is the expected output? 
SVG Gantt

What do you see instead?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "getGraphFromPPT.py", line 476, in <module>
    graph = Gantt(items)
  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\svgplotlib\Gantt.py", line 102, in __init__
    name_width, HEIGHT = draw_names()
  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\svgplotlib\Gantt.py", line 74, in draw_names
    size = self.textSize(u'Name')
  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\svgplotlib\__init__.py", line 53, in textSize
    self.font.set_text(text)
  File "freetype.pyx", line 271, in svgplotlib.freetype.FT2Font.set_text (svgplotlib\freetype.c:3991)
  File "freetype.pyx", line 302, in svgplotlib.freetype.FT2Font.set_text (svgplotlib\freetype.c:3595)
TypeError: an integer is required

What version of the product are you using? 
svgplotlib-0.2.win32-py2.6.exe

On what operating system?
Windows XP 

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by aussie.s...@gmail.com on 6 Sep 2012 at 10:15

Attachments:

• ganttry.py