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

[hbogner]

On 01/19/2014 09:16 PM, slideaway wrote:
> I output a PDF and tried to open it in Illustrator CS5.1 of a Mac running
> Mavericks 10.9. The file opens, but all the characters in the document are
> rectangles with Xs through them. It pops up an error looking for DejaVuSans.
> I tracked down the font and installed it and it doesn't seem to change
> anything. It seems like all the character information is lost when I open it
> in Illustrator. When I open it in Acrobat or Preview it shows up fine.
>
> Image of PDF issue - http://imgur.com/NXQBAzn
>
> I then tried another tact which was to download the SVG and see if that was
> any better. Ended up it was much worse. The fonts seem to be exploded
> everywhere, to the point the map is entirely hidden.
>
> Image of SVG Issue - http://imgur.com/JV7MQlj
>
> Now I don't particularly need the fonts to be editable, though it would be
> handy. Is there some way around this?

We had similar problem with Illustrator. I sent an svg fo the graphic 
designer and he couldn't open it corectly, fonts were all messed up. 
Inkscape, Corel, Gimp, and others opened the svg file normaly but 
Illustrator had problems. He even tried Illustrator on several Mac 
machines, and none could open it normaly. We had to edit the svg in 
Inkscape and convert all tekt to outlines so Illustrator could open it.

So mabye it's a Illustrator bug...