[Xastir] Labels in Tiger 2003 shape maps

[Jason Winningham]

On Sep 21, 2004, at 2:56 PM, Tom Russo wrote:

> I find these to be mostly readable.    Unfortunately, as soon as the  
> labels
> are rotated they look horrid.  Bumping up font sizes can help, but  
> sometimes
> you just get bigger, horrid text.  Without going to some sort of  
> external
> font library (and making it even harder to get xastir going), I don't  
> think
> there's a quick solution.

I'm chiming in a few days late on this, but I just found that if I  
changed the "slant" from "o" (oblique, aka italics) to "r" (regular)  
the labels got a _lot_ more readable.  They're still pretty ugly  
rotated, but not as bad as the italics.

I'll even go so far as to suggest that using "-r-"  instead of "-o-"  
would be a better default setting for the distribution.  I am currently  
using:

MAPS_LABEL_FONT_TINY:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*- 
iso8859-1
MAPS_LABEL_FONT_SMALL:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*- 
iso8859-1
MAPS_LABEL_FONT_MEDIUM:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*- 
iso8859-1
MAPS_LABEL_FONT_LARGE:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--18-*-*-*-*-*- 
iso8859-1
MAPS_LABEL_FONT_HUGE:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--24-*-*-*-*-*- 
iso8859-1

These are what Tom suggested, but regular instead of italics.

-Jason
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