[Tilesathome] fonttest failed on Batik/Win32

[Matthias Julius]

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

> Shouldn't that have gone to the list?

Yes, it should have - wrong button.

Matthias

>
> Am 15.07.2010 17:27, schrieb Matthias Julius:
>> Dirk-Lüder Kreie <osm-list at deelkar.net> writes:
>> 
>>> Am 15.07.2010 11:08, schrieb Sebastian Spaeth:
>>>> On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:20:47 +0200, Dirk-Lüder Kreie <osm-list at deelkar.net> wrote:
>>>>> Am 15.07.2010 00:33, schrieb Stephan Knauss:
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> SVG fonts were nice -- if someone implements it. Also the increased
>>>> complexity is an issue, merging a caption and a captionless layer as
>>>> Matthias Julius proposes could be a solution for that.
>>>
>>> But we need to use a different name for that, because the current
>>> captionless layer (only z12, base for lowzoom) omits not only the
>>> captions but also some features that would be bad for lowzoom stitching.
>> 
>> I was not aware of that.
>> 
>>>
>>> Or we rename the current captionless, potentially breaking other
>>> consumers of that layer.
>> 
>> Or, those features are rendered on the overlay layer, or on a third
>> layer.
>> 
>> A full-featured captionless layer (everything and all zoom levels)
>> could also be a good starting point for localized maps.
>> 
>> Matthias
>> 

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Matthias Julius
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