[mapserver-users] embedded scalebars with php-mapscript 3.5 (fwd)

[Rob Martinson]

Just to confirm, I get the same error when trying to embed a scalebar
with PHP/Mapscript on 3.5. I also use TrueType support for labels, which
works great. Bitmap labels also work if I specify a style. But even
specifying bitmap as the type for the embedded scalebar I receive the
same errors.

Rob Martinson
Nichebox - http://www.nichebox.com
Development - http://dev.nichebox.com 

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> Subject: [mapserver-users] embedded scalebars with 
> php-mapscript 3.5 (fwd)
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> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:53:44 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Bruno Gendron <bruno_gendron at yahoo.com>
> Subject: embedded scalebars with php-mapscript 3.5
> To: mapserver-info at lists.gis.umn.edu
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> Hi everyone
> 
> I recently (yesterday) switched my setup (on Windows
> 98) from PHP-Mapscript 3.4 to PHP 4.0.5-Mapscript 3.5,
> and many mapfiles are not working anymore. I finally
> isolated the problem: embedded scalebars.
> 
> For exemple, given the following mapfile:
> 
> # Map file
> 
> NAME "NEF"
> STATUS ON
> SIZE 540 360 SYMBOLSET"C:\web\htdocs\dev\geodata\symbols\marker.sym"
> FONTSET
> "C:\web\htdocs\dev\geodata\symbols\fontset.sym"
> EXTENT 278263 5031185 290820 5041061
> UNITS METERS
> SHAPEPATH "../../../mapdata"
> IMAGECOLOR 220 220 175
> 
> # Web definition
> 
> WEB
>   IMAGEPATH "c:\web\htdocs\tmp\"
>   IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
>   LOG "demo.log"
> END
> 
> # Scalebar
> 
> SCALEBAR
>   IMAGECOLOR 0 0 0
>   STYLE 0
>   COLOR 0 0 0
>   BACKGROUNDCOLOR 255 255 255
>   OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>   LABEL
>     TYPE BITMAP
>     SIZE SMALL
>   END
>   UNITS KILOMETERS
>   INTERVALS 3
>   TRANSPARENT TRUE
>   STATUS EMBED
>   POSITION LC
> END
> 
> # Layer definitions
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME "nef1995"
>   TYPE POLYGON
>   STATUS ON
>   DATA c1995
>   CLASSITEM "valeurnef"
>   
>   CLASS
>     EXPRESSION /./ 
>     OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
>     COLOR 255 255 255
>   END
> END
> 
> END # of mapfile
> 
> ...I get the following error:
> 
> Fatal error: MapServer Error in msGetBitmapFont():
> Invalid bitmap font. Must be one of tiny, small,
> medium, large or giant. in 
> c:\web\htdocs\dev\geodata\ms_installtest.php4 on line 20
> 
> If I change the scalebar status to ON, no problemo!
> Strangely, the mapfile was OK with version 3.4.  
> 
> Any solution?
> 
> Also, the 3.5 mapfile specs says the you need to
> define a markerset in order to embed a scalebar. But
> embedded scalebars were working fine in 3.4 even if
> there was no markerset defined anywhere. Could
> somebody give more informations about all this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> =====
> Bruno Gendron
> Consultant en TI et geomatique / IT and GIS Consultant
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