Bug summary

This might not be a bug per se but I think a different behaviour would make more sense. Currently thesvg.fonttype parameter of the SVG backend is ignored if any path effect is set. Though I would argue that it might still desirable to apply path effects to the axis etc and then choose a font which is matching those effects instead of rendering the text with exactly the same effects.

In my case I noticed it with the "xckd" style plotting which also selects a matching font. But due to the path effects taking precedence the SVG would never use the font making it impossible to find (search) text in the SVG when displayed on a website.

Code for reproduction

importmatplotlibimportmatplotlib.pyplotaspltwithplt.xkcd():plt.rcParams['svg.fonttype']='none'fig=plt.figure()fig,ax=plt.subplots()ax.annotate("Test", (0.5,0.5))plt.savefig("test.svg")

Actual outcome

Instead of atext tag in the SVG the text is rendered aspath

Expected outcome

The text represented by atext tag in the SVG.

Additional information

The "problem" originates intext.py line 785 (

The behaviour I would prefer could be achieved with the following patch but it feels rather hacky. Any suggestion how to achieve this in a better way would be welcome.

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/text.py b/lib/matplotlib/text.pyindex 7a58ce7172..8197910820 100644--- a/lib/matplotlib/text.py+++ b/lib/matplotlib/text.py@@ -782,7 +782,9 @@ class Text(Artist):                     y = canvash - y                 clean_line, ismath = self._preprocess_math(line) -                if self.get_path_effects():+                from matplotlib.backends.backend_svg import RendererSVG++                if not (isinstance(renderer._renderer, RendererSVG) and mpl.rcParams['svg.fonttype'] == "none") and self.get_path_effects():                     from matplotlib.patheffects import PathEffectRenderer                     textrenderer = PathEffectRenderer(                         self.get_path_effects(), renderer)

Operating system

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Matplotlib Version

3.7.2

Matplotlib Backend

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Python version

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Installation

pip