[Tilesathome] Check font rendering

[Knut Arne Bjørndal]

On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 12:35:29PM +0200, Stephan Knauss wrote:
> Knut Arne Bjørndal wrote:
> > The map is supposed to be rendered with dejavu, if a renderer doesn't
> > have that installed it's broken.
> 
> Knut, are you aware that DejaVu does not contain all needed characters? 
> The renderer has to fall back to another font.

Ah, ok. No, I didn't know that.

Most font problems I've seen have been people who haven't had DejaVu
installed.

Adding a good fallback font for the stuff not covered by dejavu sounds
like a good idea.

However it still leaves the problem of knowing if the font is
installed, I see two possible solutions to this:

One would be to write a check that looks in the same places as
inkscape and batik and checks that all required fonts are there,
however i think this might easily become quite the mess, especially
when you add all kinds of different platforms.

The other would be to use SVG fonts, see this trac ticket for some
thoughts on the subject: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1228

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