On Apr 22, 2009, at 10:48 PM, Torsten Mohr wrote: > Hello, > > i work on Linux, my system is based on OpenSuse 11.1-64. > > When i try to render certain parts of the world, some characters > can't be > resolved, so i try Mapniks fallback behaviour (found in the archives). >
See also: http://highearthorbit.com/cjk-fonts-in-openstreetmap-tiles/ and http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/FontSet > I don't know what font name to supply as fallback. > > In the osm.xml i use the font face_name="DejaVu Sans Book" and > rendering works fine. > > But i can't find that font when i try to use it in an OpenOffice > Document > or when i use a font viewer. > Right, because the Python bindings (for convenience) by default only register the bundled DejaVu fonts installed in: >>> from mapnik.paths import fontscollectionpath as f >>> f '/usr/local/lib/mapnik/fonts' >>> > On the other hand, when i install a font in /usr/share/fonts/ > truetype i > can use it in OpenOffice and see it in font viewers but can't use it > in > Mapnik. You can easily use it, you just have to register the font. >>> import mapnik >>> engine = mapnik.FontEngine.instance() >>> engine.register_font('/path/to/font.ttf') > > Can somebody tell me where are fonts installed on Linux that Mapnik > uses? > See above. > How can i find out the name to use in osm.xml? > from mapnik import * for name in FontEngine.instance().face_names(): print name > Can somebody suggest a good (or several) so that China and India > (and also the rest of the world) gets rendered fine? > http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html > > Thanks for any hints, > Torsten. > > > _______________________________________________ > Mapnik-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
