[Tilesathome] Indic(Indian) fonts

[Knut Arne Bjørndal]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:51:10AM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:59:20PM +0200, Ariel Garcia wrote:
> > why would the client need admin rights?
> > 
> > i'm not suggesting it should run "apt-get install my-new-font",
> > but rather  the client running under a plain unprivileged user could just add 
> > the needed fonts from a downloadable tarball at OSM...
> > 
> > Something like:
> > 
> > wget  http://ftp.openstreetmap.org/font/extra-font-1.tgz
> > tar xfz extra-font-1.tgz ~/.fonts
> > 
> > and edit ~/.fonts.conf  accordingly.
> > 
> > Wouldn't that work?
> 
> Windows? Not that i'll use it but there are probably 50% of the users running the
> client under windows ...

And does it work with all the rasterizers?

The easiest approach is probably to check for fonts and require people
running the client to install it in whatever way is appropriate for
their OS and rasterizer of choice.

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