[OSM-newbies] Opening Map PDF won't render fonts properly

[Stewart C. Russell]

On 14-01-19 03:16 PM, slideaway wrote:
> I output a PDF and tried to open it in Illustrator CS5.1 of a Mac running
> Mavericks 10.9.

I think there's still a belief in the open source community that PDFs
are final display versions of documents. That was the original intent,
until Adobe decide to bloat them up with reflowable content streams.

> The file opens, but all the characters in the document are
> rectangles with Xs through them. It pops up an error looking for DejaVuSans.

The view I downloaded had the fonts correctly subsetted as DejaVuSans.
They aren't re-encoded in any weird way. Adobe is really good at not
following its own standards.

> Now I don't particularly need the fonts to be editable, though it would be
> handy. Is there some way around this? 

Open the SVG in Inkscape, and re-save it in one of the more reliable
formats, maybe?

cheers,
 Stewart