Hello, thank you very much, it all works as expected now. China and India cities have names !!! Hooray!!!
Best regards, Torsten. Am Donnerstag, 23. April 2009 08:25:55 schrieb Dane Springmeyer: > 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
