[Tilesathome] fonttest failed on Batik/Win32

[Matthias Julius]

Dirk-Lüder Kreie <osm-list at deelkar.net> writes:

> Am 15.07.2010 00:33, schrieb Stephan Knauss:
>> I found no documentation in these folders how the reference images had
>> been created. Was batik involved?
>> 
>> Asian characters are rendered using unifont, right? Which version was
>> used? tahwin includes 5.1.20080907
>> 
>> Should we include my rendering as reference as well?
>
> The rendering for Khammam is way off. It doesn't even do the ligatures
> correctly. This is a known bug for batik.
>
>> To get a uniform rendering I still favour switching to SVG fonts. This
>> way the font delivered with T at H will be used independently of what is
>> installed on the user machine.
>
> If someone implements it *and* it doesn't make inner city renderings
> impossible due to increased rendering complexity.

Could it make sense to render sub-layers and later merge them instead of
or additionally to the rendering of stripes?

Specifically, we could render the captionless and caption layers and
then merge the tiles.

Matthias