Hi Andrea, thanks for your explanation, it does make sense to me that this is not a bug but rather a limitation in the Java environment. I'd say it's fine as long as you know about this behaviour and use the workaround instead. I just wanted to let you and the ML know, maybe there will be a solution for this in some future release..
Cheers, Matthias Am 30.09.2013 12:15, schrieb Andrea Aime: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Matthias Uden <matthias.u...@gmail.com > <mailto:matthias.u...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi all, > > it seems that there is a problem with rendering bold and/or italic > fonts correctly which are *not* installed on the system but only put > into the %GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR/styles folder. > > The GS loads the font and renders it. However, if the font-weight is > specified as 'bold' or the font-style as 'italic' in the SLD, the > display is not quite correct. It is, however, correct for the > 'normal' font-style/weight. > > > As far as I remember when we load font from the data dir the ability to > turn then bold/italic is lost, you basically > have to refer directly to the ttf file name having the styling you > desire, eg.., Gudea-Bold.ttf. > However, not sure how you'd get a bold/italic effect, unless you also > have a file like that. > > It may be a limitation in our implementation, but as far as I can see > Java itself does not allow to load more > than a single TFF file when creating a font: > http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/awt/Font.html#createFont%28int,%20java.io.File%29 > > Cheers > Andrea > > > -- > == > Our support, Your Success! Visit http://opensdi.geo-solutions.it for > more information. > == > > Ing. Andrea Aime > @geowolf > Technical Lead > > GeoSolutions S.A.S. > Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 > 55054 Massarosa (LU) > Italy > phone: +39 0584 962313 > fax: +39 0584 1660272 > mob: +39 339 8844549 > > http://www.geo-solutions.it > http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > October Webinars: Code for Performance > Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. > Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from > the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60133471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > > > > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-users mailing list > Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134791&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
