Gregor, Very cool and yes, please. Lets implement stretched text in mapnik 0.8.0.
Regards, Artem 2010/1/8 Dane Springmeyer <[email protected]>: > Gregor, > > This is great stuff and a feature I've always had interest in. I think > stretched or fully justified text is only seldom used because its not > well supported in renderers. Having this support in Mapnik would be > great. > > You've likely seen that we have basic support for stretching text with > the "character_spacing" parameter when using POINT_PLACEMENT added in > http://trac.mapnik.org/changeset/1254 > which closed http://trac.mapnik.org/ticket/121. This is still > lacking for LINE_PLACMENT. > > And http://trac.mapnik.org/changeset/1341 added the > "justify_alignment" parameter, which I've not been able to play with > yet, but appears close to what you are doing, but lacks in full (both > right and left) justification. > > There is nothing in trunk that is different from the 0.7 in terms of > placement algorithms, so you should be fine developing against 0.7 and > we'll help you port over to trunk in time. > > Cheers, > > Dane > > > > On Jan 8, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Gregor Berginc wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I was trying to build a map of strings, where each string fill its >> entire shape, e.g. to display the name of the mountain ranges. >> Although I studied the documentation on Trac and the code itself, I >> was not able to find anything like this in the current /branches/0.7 >> release (unfortunately, I am not able to build boost 1.41 so I >> cannot use /trunk at the moment). >> >> Therefore, I modified the current text renderer (placement_finder to >> be more exact) to support "justified" text rendering for line >> placement. Below are some screen-shots showing the end result >> (please note that the style is not optimal yet!). >> >> An example of such a map is shown in the following image: >> >> o http://gmajna.net/svojat/lemmy/rezi.png >> >> And two samples once integrated with our 3d visualisation soultion >> Gaea+: >> >> o http://gmajna.net/svojat/lemmy/gaea-1.png >> o http://gmajna.net/svojat/lemmy/gaea-2.png >> >> Although such a style is seldom used in maps seen on the web I was >> wondering whether there is anyone else interested in such a feature >> of the text renderer. If so, I can try to clean up the code (yes, >> it's been a while since I worked with C++ :)) and share it. >> >> Wish you all a great weekend, >> >> Gregor >> >> ======================================================= >> Gregor Berginc | Product Manager | Gaea+ >> XLAB d.o.o. | Pot za Brdom 100 | SI-1000 Ljubljana | Slovenia | Europe >> http://gaeaplus.com | [email protected] | http://xlab.si >> T. +386 1 2447 754 | M. +386 31 340 745 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
