[mapserver-users] Using fallback fonts?

thomas bonfort thomas.bonfort at gmail.com
Mon Aug 5 08:01:26 PDT 2013


it's possible in mapserver since version 6.2 :
http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-80.html . Note that
there's a hardcoded limit of 4 fallbacks font (1 main font + 4
fallbacks).  In mapserver 7.0 this limit will be lifted, and it will
also be possible to prioritize which font to use for a specific script
("script" is more or less equivalent to "language")

--
thomas

On 5 August 2013 16:52, Sven Geggus <lists at fuchsschwanzdomain.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> in Mapnik it is possible to use an alternate font if a character is not
> available on the standard font:
>
> <FontSet name="book-fonts">
>   <Font face-name="DejaVu Sans Book" />
>   <Font face-name="unifont Medium" />
> </FontSet>
>
> With Openstreetmap Data it is often the case, that a given character is only
> available in unifont but not in "DejaVu Sans Book" (the default).
>
> If I correctly understand the documentation of FONTSET correctly this is
> impossible to do this in mapserver.
>
> Am I right in this assumption?
>
> Sven
>
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