[Geoserver-users] Chinese font-family in sld?

shane_china · May 14, 2009, 1:15pm

I want to know how many kinds of font-family are available in sld? What is
the default one?
I am from China, so labels in map are in Chinese.
First I set font-family like this, but the label only displayed in square
shapes

        <CssParameter name="font-family">Arial</CssParameter>
        <CssParameter name="font-size">10</CssParameter>
        <CssParameter name="font-weight">normal</CssParameter>

I thought the font-family I set was wrong, so I changed it as following

        <CssParameter name="font-size">10</CssParameter>
        <CssParameter name="font-weight">normal</CssParameter>

Now, it works. But there is another problem. The labels are fuzzy. I want it
as clear as google map. So is there any methods to make geoserver support
chinese font-family?
Please help me, Thank you

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Andrea_Aime3 · May 15, 2009, 7:02am

shane_china ha scritto:

I want to know how many kinds of font-family are available in sld? What is
the default one? I am from China, so labels in map are in Chinese. First I set font-family like this, but the label only displayed in square
shapes
            <CssParameter name="font-family">Arial</CssParameter> <CssParameter name="font-size">10</CssParameter> <CssParameter name="font-weight">normal</CssParameter>

I thought the font-family I set was wrong, so I changed it as following
            <CssParameter name="font-size">10</CssParameter> <CssParameter name="font-weight">normal</CssParameter>
    Now, it works. But there is another problem. The labels are fuzzy. I want it
as clear as google map. So is there any methods to make geoserver support
chinese font-family?

GeoServer can use any font the operating system in which it runs offers,
at least on Windows and Mac.
In the past I made this map:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-1210
and I used the "PMingliu" font that, I believe, was distributed along with Windows (so, the SLD looked like
<CssParameter name="font-family">PMingLiu</CssParameter> ).

Generally speaking, find a font that displays the chinese chars the
way you like on your platform and use its name in the SLD.

Hope this helps

Cheers
Andrea

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shane_china · May 15, 2009, 12:31pm

Thank you for your help. I will try every font-family and get a perfect one

Andrea Aime-4 wrote:

shane_china ha scritto:

I want to know how many kinds of font-family are available in sld? What
is
the default one?
I am from China, so labels in map are in Chinese.
First I set font-family like this, but the label only displayed in square
shapes

        <CssParameter name="font-family">Arial</CssParameter>
        <CssParameter name="font-size">10</CssParameter>
        <CssParameter name="font-weight">normal</CssParameter>

I thought the font-family I set was wrong, so I changed it as following

        <CssParameter name="font-size">10</CssParameter>
        <CssParameter name="font-weight">normal</CssParameter>

Now, it works. But there is another problem. The labels are fuzzy. I want
it
as clear as google map. So is there any methods to make geoserver support
chinese font-family?

GeoServer can use any font the operating system in which it runs offers,
at least on Windows and Mac.
In the past I made this map:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-1210
and I used the "PMingliu" font that, I believe, was distributed along
with Windows (so, the SLD looked like
<CssParameter name="font-family">PMingLiu</CssParameter> ).

Generally speaking, find a font that displays the chinese chars the
way you like on your platform and use its name in the SLD.

Hope this helps

Cheers
Andrea

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IT_Intern · September 14, 2010, 2:31pm

Andrea Aime-4 wrote:

Generally speaking, find a font that displays the chinese chars the
way you like on your platform and use its name in the SLD.

Hope this helps

Cheers
Andrea

Hello, I am having this issue now. In my case I have the chinese and
Tibetan names of countries stored in a database and want to display the
names as labels on a map. I have tried these suggestions but only get
square characters as mentioned above. My SLD code for textsymbolizer is as
such:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
...
...
  <TextSymbolizer>
          <label><ogc:PropertyName>name</ogc:PropertyName>
          </label>

        <CssParameter name="font-style">Normal</CssParameter>
        <CssParameter name="font-size">10</CssParameter>

    <Fill>
        <CssParameter name="fill">#000000</CssParameter>
    </Fill>
</TextSymbolizer>
..

But it's still a no-go :(. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

elshae

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David_Winslow · September 16, 2010, 12:34am

I’ve been playing around a bit with mapnik styles for openstreetmap data (which needs good font coverage since it has data from every part of the world). The styles used on http://open.mapquest.co.uk/ use Unifont (http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html) as a fallback for every font-family in their style to avoid the empty box problem.

In SLD, this would look like:

…

Arial

Unifont Medium

…

Actually installing the font varies from operating system to operating system.

Hope this helps.

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David Winslow
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:31 AM, elshae <itintern12@anonymised.com> wrote:

Andrea Aime-4 wrote:

Generally speaking, find a font that displays the chinese chars the
way you like on your platform and use its name in the SLD.

Hope this helps

Cheers
Andrea

Hello, I am having this issue now. In my case I have the chinese and
Tibetan names of countries stored in a database and want to display the
names as labels on a map. I have tried these suggestions but only get
square characters as mentioned above. My SLD code for textsymbolizer is as
such:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
…
…

ogc:PropertyNamename</ogc:PropertyName>

Normal
10
#000000 ..
But it’s still a no-go :(. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

elshae

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IT_Intern · September 30, 2010, 3:51pm

I got it! My understanding was very misguided...I have posted about my
success and the steps I have taken here:

http://old.nabble.com/Display-labels-in-another-language-td29703100.html#a29847085

Thanks,

elshae
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