[Tilesathome] Check font rendering

Knut Arne Bjørndal bob+osm at cakebox.net
Sat Sep 5 11:25:21 BST 2009


On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 11:57:14AM +0200, Stephan Knauss wrote:
> Right now it is already broken. The styles include only dejavu as 
> font-family. Depending on the machine the renderer is running a 
> different font might be selected for the Asian characters.
> 
> We would need to specify more precisely which font to use.
> If you look at the map you will already see different font styles.
> Usually this does not harm much as most labels do not cross tile-borders.
> It affects the overall look though.

The map is supposed to be rendered with dejavu, if a renderer doesn't
have that installed it's broken.

Some detection of this that could halt the client and tell the user to
fix his installation would be nice.

-- 
Knut Arne Bjørndal
aka Bob Kåre
bob+osm at cakebox.net
bobkare at irc
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