[OSM-talk] Cambridge complete!

[Andy Robinson]

Frederik Ramm wrote:
>Sent: 19 January 2007 4:14 PM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Cambridge complete!
>
>Hi,
>
>Quoting Steve Chilton:
>
>> Someone on the list
>
>... me ...
>
>> came up with a workaround for this the other day, but as it involved
>> editing font files it wasn't really for me.
>
>The only reason for me not to distribute the modified font was
>license concerns (as it was a derivative of the Microsoft Verdana font).
>
>I have meanwhile found a font that looks much like Verdana but has a
>license allowing derivative works and distributing them: Bitstream
>Vera Sans. (The condition is that the derived works must not contain
>"bitstream" or "vera" in their name.)
>
>So I prepared a ready-to-use font with a built-in baseline shift that
>works around the bug in inkscape. Download
>
>http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/downshift.ttf
>

That's neat, Cheers,

Andy


>and install it properly, and change all occurrences of "verdana" in
>your .svg file to "downshift". You should then see something more
>pleasing to the eye!
>
>(I have yet to better understand the tiles at home infrastructure but in
>the long run I hope that we can enable this workaround for
>distributed tile rendering as well!)
>
>Quoting David Groom:
>
>> But I will just go over those now as I will be using
>> osmarender for this.
>
>Give Jochen's "osmarender4" (from SVN) a try. It does a good job at
>avoiding upside-down names, only screws up if you have segments
>within one way that run in different directions.
>
>Bye
>Frederik
>
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