[Tilesathome] User KML: Fonts

80n 80n80n at gmail.com
Mon Sep 3 15:48:09 BST 2007


On 9/3/07, Chris Fleming <me at chrisfleming.org> wrote:
>
> 80n wrote:
> > User KML
> > You appear to be generating tiles with no street names or captions.
> > See:
> >
> http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Tiles/info.php?x=2045&y=1360&z=12&layer=tile
> > <
> http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Tiles/info.php?x=2045&y=1360&z=12&layer=tile>
> >
> > Can you check that you have the DejaVu fonts installed, I think that
> > is probably the cause of the problem.
> >
> > Also, does anyone have any ideas why the tiles generated by morwen are
> > different (nicer) than the tiles generated by everyone else?
> >
> > See here:
> >
> http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=51.515771018963505&lon=-0.1724511280062591&zoom=15&layers=0B00F000
> > <
> http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=51.515771018963505&lon=-0.1724511280062591&zoom=15&layers=0B00F000
> >
> > the text on the right is fainter than on the left and looks nicer IMO.
> >
> > Morwen has Ubuntu / Inkscape 0.43 with a standard tiles at home client.
> > Is anyone running a similar set-up?  Do you get bold or faint captions?
> I'm on Ubuntu (Standard Feisty Fawn) with inkscape 0.45 everything
> standard. My rendering looks pretty much the same as Morwen's...
>
> http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=55.944420612097574&lon=-3.1873070519265787&zoom=15&layers=0B00F000


Hmm, so maybe the version of DejaVu fonts is different for Ubuntu versions.
Anyone know anything about this kind of thing?


I can provide a login to my box if anyone wants to nosy around....
>
> Cheers
> Chris
>
> --
> http://www.chrisfleming.org/
>
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