[OSM-newbies] a mapnik osm.xml for 0.7.1?

[Richard Weait]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Charles <charlesjb70 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm sure this is a silly question, but hey it's what this list is for :)
>
> I'm running mapnik0.7.1 on fc16 and can't upgrade to mapnik2 for various
> operational reasons.
>
> So I've been happily rendering maps with 0.7.1 but now I want to do some
> tile stuff...
>
> So I downloaded
> https://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/rendering/mapnik and
> when I run
>
> ./generate_xml.py --dbname blah --host 'localhost' --user postgres --port
> 5432 --password 'xxxxxx'
>
> I get the
>
> RuntimeError: Failed to find font face in Fontset 'book-fonts'
>
> error, which as I understand it, is because the osm.xml file with the
> rendering app is expecting mapnik2.

Or expecting specific fonts.  iirc from this older version, try
changing the default fonts in this section of the osm.xml

<FontSet name="book-fonts">
  <Font face-name="DejaVu Sans Book" />
  <Font face-name="unifont Medium"/>
</FontSet>
<FontSet name="bold-fonts">
  <Font face-name="DejaVu Sans Bold" />
  <Font face-name="unifont Medium"/>
</FontSet>
<FontSet name="oblique-fonts">
  <Font face-name="DejaVu Sans Oblique" />
  <Font face-name="unifont Medium"/>
</FontSet>

comment out the fonts that you don't have installed.

Or take a boo at this older article on fonts and mapnik.
http://web.archive.org/web/20101023190350/http://weait.com/content/add-fonts-your-openstreetmap-server