[mapserver-users] GD/Freetype Problem (was: No Image Output)

[Alexander Pucher]

Bryan Tolka wrote:

> Have you recompilied PHP with the switch without-ttf? On most RPM 
> installs it seems to be complied in, on RedHat it was.

I thought that was just for pre 3.5 version of mapserver!

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> You also need to compile freetype 1 with gd.

I really tried out every imaginable combination of GD and Freetype 
without success.

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> Mine all works this way.

Do you use SuSE and if so, did you remove some packages with YAST2 
before starting your builds?



alex

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> Alexander Pucher wrote:
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>> Daniel,
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>> sorry, but no, my build does _not_ work, unless I comment the 
>> 'Label'  sections in the Gmap map file or I uncheck the 'Pop.Places' 
>> layer, which uses TTF!!!
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>> Some more general questions, before I start it all over again on a 
>> clean system. I work on my private notebook, so setting up the whole 
>> thing again is no big deal!
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>> Does 'SUPPORTS=TTF' in the 'mapserv -v' output:
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>> MapServer version 3.6.1 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP 
>> SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=TTF SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT 
>> INPUT=TIFF INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=JPEG INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL 
>> INPUT=SHAPEFILE
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>> of my CGI mean that my mapserver executable supports Freetype 1? As I 
>> understood, TTF refers to  Freetype1 whereas FT ~ Freetype2 in all 
>> Makefiles etc. of the GD, PHP and Mapserver builds and configures. Is 
>> that correct? Does otherwise Freetype2 support show up with something 
>> like 'SUPPORT=FT' or 'SUPPORT=FREETYPE' ?
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>> Can anyone on the list report on a successful build of mapserver 
>> 3.6.1 on SuSE 8.0 with any GD/Freetype support?
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>> What about using GD 2 or the newest mapserver nighly built. Should 
>> this change things?
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>> Regards,
>> alex
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>> Daniel Morissette wrote:
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>>> Alexander Pucher wrote:
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>>>> checking for gdImageStringFT in -lgd... yes
>>>> checking for gdImageString16 in -lgd... yes
>>>> checking for gdImageGifPtr in -lgd... yes
>>>>        using GD ( -DUSE_GD_GIF -DUSE_GD_PNG -DUSE_GD_JPEG -DUSE_GD_WBMP
>>>> -DUSE_GD_FT -DGD_HAS_GDIMAGEGIFPTR) from system libs.
>>>> checking whether we should include PDF support...
>>>> ...
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>>>> According to the MapServer Unix HOWTO, I should not get DUSE_GD_FT but
>>>> DUSE_GD_TTF, when building with Freetype1 !!!
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>>> Hummm... you're correct that we would expect to see -DUSE_GD_TTF for
>>> freetype 1.3, that's odd... I checked on one of our servers and I get
>>> the same -DUSE_GD_FT as you with freetype1.3 and my truetype fonts work
>>> well, so I would suggest that you continue with your build... it's
>>> probably going to work.
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