[OSM-talk] Fonts in osmarender WAS:Cambridge complete!

[Bruce Cowan]

On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 17:13 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> 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
> 
> 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!

Why should osmarender define Verdana as the font to use in its renders?
Not every computer has this font, and it is a copyrighted one.  Would
changing it to generic "Sans" work on non-Linux computers?  I think that
DejaVu et. al. would be better on maps anyway saying it has a nicer
licence than Verdana.
-- 
Bruce Cowan <bruce.cowan at dsl.pipex.com>