On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 12:41 +0000, Tom Chance wrote: > On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 17:57 +0000, Jon Burgess wrote: > > That would be a typo: DevaVu vs DejaVu > > I noticed that a little while after sending! The problem I've had is that > it's not obvious what to call the font, as the "proper" (I'd guess) name used > by Mapnik isn't the same as the name that OpenOffice and other apps show. > "DejaVu Serif" needs to be called "DejaVu Serif Condensed", for example.
It used to be really hard to work out the correct names but Mapnik now makes this a little easier. First work out where Mapnik will load the fonts from: [jburg...@shark fonts]$ python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Sep 30 2008, 15:42:03) [GCC 4.3.2 20080917 (Red Hat 4.3.2-4)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from mapnik import * >>> print fontscollectionpath /usr/local/lib64/mapnik//fonts Now, unpack the shrewsbury.zip into the directory printed above. Then restart python and run: [jburg...@shark fonts]$ python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Sep 30 2008, 15:42:03) [GCC 4.3.2 20080917 (Red Hat 4.3.2-4)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from mapnik import * >>> for fname in FontEngine.face_names(): ... print fname ... DejaVu Sans Bold DejaVu Sans Bold Oblique DejaVu Sans Book DejaVu Sans Condensed DejaVu Sans Condensed Bold DejaVu Sans Condensed Bold Oblique DejaVu Sans Condensed Oblique DejaVu Sans ExtraLight DejaVu Sans Mono Bold DejaVu Sans Mono Bold Oblique DejaVu Sans Mono Book DejaVu Sans Mono Oblique DejaVu Sans Oblique DejaVu Serif Bold DejaVu Serif Bold Italic DejaVu Serif Book DejaVu Serif Condensed DejaVu Serif Condensed Bold DejaVu Serif Condensed Bold Italic DejaVu Serif Italic Shrewsbury Bold Shrewsbury Normal Shrewsbury-Condensed Bold Shrewsbury-Condensed Normal Shrewsbury-Titling Bold Shrewsbury-Titling Normal >>> > > > Can you tell us where to get hold of this font so we can try it? > > Here: > http://www.1001freefonts.com/shrewsbury.php > I don't know if the problem is with the font of the mapnik toolchain. I've tried doing some Mapnik rendering with those files and all I get is just the square boxes. Normally this indicates that the glyph is missing from the font, but they work fine in KDE font viewer. I tried both Agg and Cairo renderer and both failed. Jon _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
