On Sep 8, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Lennard wrote:

> On 8-9-2010 13:56, Buddy Mash wrote:
> 
>> Many thanks for your suggestion. This was indeed the problem. Lower and
>> mixed-case TTF file names work, but an all-uppercase file name means the
>> font gets ignored!
> 
> If the filename is all uppercase and fits in the 8.3 format (a SFN, Short 
> Filename), then a LFN (Long Filename) will not be generated and stored by 
> Windows. So it would seem that mapnik (or boost) only operates on files which 
> have a LFN stored.
> 

Thanks guys for these notes.

Seems like something we should try to iron out if possible from the Mapnik 
side. I don't have windows available at the moment to test, but I've created to 
flag the issue (http://trac.mapnik.org/ticket/606).

Dane

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