Hi Jon, Sorry for the Outlook top post. Thanks so much for your help, I've got it all working now.
Kind regards, Tom Chance Researcher to the Director BioRegional a. BedZED Centre, 24 Helios Road, Wallington, London, SM6 7BZ t 020 8404 4884 w. www.bioregional.com Registered charity number 1041486. A company limited by guarantee. Registered in England and Wales no. 2973226. “BioRegional are pioneers in reinventing our economy” – Achim Steiner, United Nations Environment Programme Watch Achim Steiner's speech on: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=m3g8AHoQb5k ________________________________________ From: Jon Burgess [[email protected]] Sent: 11 March 2009 22:03 To: Tom Chance Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Mapnik-users] Specifying fonts On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 19:47 +0000, Jon Burgess wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 12:41 +0000, Tom Chance wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 17:57 +0000, Jon Burgess wrote: > > > > Here: > > http://www.1001freefonts.com/shrewsbury.php > > > I don't know if the problem is with the font of the mapnik toolchain. > > I've tried doing some Mapnik rendering with those files and all I get is > just the square boxes. Normally this indicates that the glyph is missing > from the font, but they work fine in KDE font viewer. > > I tried both Agg and Cairo renderer and both failed. I loaded the ttf file into fontforge[1] and exported it again as a new ttf file and now it seems to render OK. I have attached a copy of the new file to this email. I don't know the details of exactly what was wrong or if there is a better way for Mapnik to handle this. Jon 1: http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
