title: matplotlib can't load ft2font on Windows 10
body: <p>I'm using Anaconda 5.0.1 with Python 2.7.14.  When I open a jupyter notebook and try to run the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>%matplotlib inline
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
  C:\toolkits.win\anaconda2\envs\dlc\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\font_manager.py in &lt;module&gt;()
       56 
       57 import matplotlib
  ---&gt; 58 from matplotlib import afm, cbook, ft2font, rcParams, get_cachedir
       59 from matplotlib.compat import subprocess
       60 from matplotlib.fontconfig_pattern import (
  
  ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I try to drill into the error, the problem is with ft2font:</p>
  
  <pre><code>In [1]: from matplotlib import ft2font
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
  &lt;ipython-input-1-a32e7826851f&gt; in &lt;module&gt;()
  ----&gt; 1 from matplotlib import ft2font
  
  ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I double-checked and made sure freetype is installed:</p>
  
  <pre><code>(dlc) C:\Users\Larry&gt;conda install freetype
  Fetching package metadata .............
  Solving package specifications: .
  
  # All requested packages already installed.
  # packages in environment at C:\toolkits.win\anaconda2\envs\dlc:
  #
  freetype                  2.8               vc9hf582001_0  [vc9]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>