Torsten, Great, glad that works!
Be aware that text in India may not be correct however: http://trac.mapnik.org/ticket/112 Dane On Apr 23, 2009, at 11:32 PM, Torsten Mohr wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
