[mapserver-users] truetype support for 3.5 win binaries?

[Armin Burger]

I tried this with the path in the fontset file (with both slashes and
backslashes) but I still got the same message. If the font cannot be found
you get messages more like
'msGetLabelSize(): TrueType Font error. Could not find/open font '

With the php version of Mapserver the results were better using antialias.
They were then identical with ms 3.4 and antialias. But the best results
were still with 3.4 without antialiasing. The fonts were then produced only
as one pixel thin lines. You could not distinguish them from the characters
in the normal html text.

armin


> I find the same error message, but when I give the full path of the font
> file, I succeeded.
> Maybe this can help.

> On 2001-8-13 10:17:00, you wrote:
>>Is there any win binary for ms 3.5 that has truetype support built in? The
>>readme file says
>> 'compiled with this distribution are:
>>  PNG, JPEG, TIFF/GeoTIFF, Proj4, Freetype 2.'
>>
>>but when I configure labels to use truetype I get the following error
>>message:
>>
>>'msGetLabelSize(): TrueType Font error. libgd was not built with TrueType
>>font support'.
>>
>>I used the gif version (the readme file is probably the same for png and
>>gif). The php enabled version from dm solutions offers tt support but the
>>result of the output is a bit poor, no comparison to the good quality from
>>the ms 3.4.
>>
>>I dont't have a clue, is it necessary to install Freetype additionally?
>>
>>Thanks for any help
>>
>>Armin
>>
>>--
>>Armin Burger
>>Territorium Online
>>Siemensstrasse/Via Siemens 19 - 39100 Bozen/Bolzano - Italia
>>_



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