[lca2018-chat] Font used to render badge?

[James Polley]

In the middle of doing other things, I threw together a really basic little
test environment for anyone who wants to play with the badge rendering -
either by playing with the badge template, or by finding a more better way
to render the SVG into a something we can use for a preview without relying
on the fonts available on someone's desktop.

You can check it out at https://gitlab.com/LCA2018/rendertest

If you're comfortable with Docker, you should be able to use
the "make_badge.sh" script to turn the SVG in the repo into a PDF.

If you're not so comfortable with Docker, you should be able to send a
merge request, and Gitlab's CI should generate a PDF for you.



On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 2:07 PM, paul <paul at zot.org> wrote:

> Throwing more "gah, more stuff to care about" on the fire, I tried to
> enter some Chinese characters on the 'free text' line in the account info -
> they showed up fine in the browser (debian/firefox), but in the preview
> image they were the unicode placeholder boxes (no chinese chars at all).
> Presumably the fonts are missing from the server generating the preview
> image, but I have no idea if this would affect the actual printed tickets.
>
> It's not a major issue for me, just a bit of fun, but just something to be
> aware of.
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
>
> On 08/01/18 23:04, James Polley wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 6:28 PM, Daniel Sobey <dns at dns.id.au> wrote:
>
>> Hello List,
>>
>> Just wondering what font will be used to render the conference badges.
>> I can see in the preview that that some emoji do work but when I try and
>> enter the flag for Australia it does not render.
>>
>
> That's a really good question, I'm open to suggestions. Hoping to have
> this nailed down next weekend.
>
> Even if it does render, the printing is going to be black-and-white, so
> the flag isn't going to be particularly noticeably Australian anyway.
>
> For now, https://rego.linux.conf.au/tickets/mybadge.png probably gives
> you the best idea about what would come out of we printed it today, but I
> hope to improve that if I can figure out how to improve the rendering.
>
> Suggestions (and patches) welcome.
>
>
>>
>> Are you planning on supporting emoji, font awesome, material icons on
>> badges?
>> If so what font should we use to preview the badges.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Daniel
>>
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