mapbox/tilemill — Issue #1256: using bundled DejaVu fonts can lead to broken pdfs
Author: springmeyer
Created: 2012-01-30 18:59:40+00:00
State: open

This is a hunch, but downstream issue is at: http://support.mapbox.com/discussions/general-questions/491-corrupted-text-when-opening-exported-pdf-files-in-illustrator

A potential solution here would be to not allow mapnik to register the dejvu fonts at all. But then we'd also need some other fallbacks in geography lesson that are likely system fonts.