[OSM-dev] Difficulty with rendering text in Mapnik

[Artem Pavlenko]

Hi Nick,

If you're rendering from c++ you must register some fonts e.g.
...
freetype_engine::instance()->register_font("/opt/mapnik/lib64/mapnik/fonts//Vera.ttf");
...

Python bindings use similar mechanism but it is automatic. First test to try 
is to :

cd $(mapnik_src)/demo/python
python rundemo.py 

and see if you're getting some text.

Let me know.

Cheers,
-- Artem



On Wednesday 17 January 2007 21:40, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> Hello Artem (and anyone else who may have tried their own mapnik
> rendering),
>
> I'm getting close to being able to create Freemap maps (OSM countryside
> maps for the UK) using Mapnik. The only problem is that I can't get text to
> render.
>
> Example images are at
>
> http://nick.dev.openstreetmap.org/mapnik2/100490120.png (etc)
>
> The style XML file is at
>
> http://nick.dev.openstreetmap.org/mapnik2/freemap2.xml
>
> Any ideas what might be wrong? I seem to have done it the same w
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 21:40, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> Hello Artem (and anyone else who may have tried their own mapnik
> rendering),
>
> I'm getting close to being able to create Freemap maps (OSM countryside
> maps for the UK) using Mapnik. The only problem is that I can't get text to
> render.
>
> Example images are at
>
> http://nick.dev.openstreetmap.org/mapnik2/100490120.png (etc)
>
> The style XML file is at
>
> http://nick.dev.openstreetmap.org/mapnik2/freemap2.xml
>
> Any ideas what might be wrong? I seem to have done it the same w
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 21:40, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> Hello Artem (and anyone else who may have tried their own mapnik
> rendering),
>
> I'm getting close to being able to create Freemap maps (OSM countryside
> maps for the UK) using Mapnik. The only problem is that I can't get text to
> render.
>
> Example images are at
>
> http://nick.dev.openstreetmap.org/mapnik2/100490120.png (etc)
>
> The style XML file is at
>
> http://nick.dev.openstreetmap.org/mapnik2/freemap2.xml
>
> Any ideas what might be wrong? I seem to have done it the same way as
> osm.xml.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick