[mapserver-users] ANGLE AUTO in a LABEL

[randy james]

Thank you

I have been trying to rotate fonts in a shape file for
months. I tried everything i could think of and could
not. And all it was, i needed truetype fonts rather
than bitmap.

Randy

--- "Lowell.Filak" <lfilak at medinaco.org> wrote:
> You need to use truetype fonts for 'ANGLE AUTO'
> bitmap fonts do not
> rotate.
> Hope that helps.
> Lowell F.
> 
> On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, David McGaughey wrote:
> 
> > Greetings!
> >
> > A question from a newbie:
> >
> > I don't seem to be able to get the "ANGLE AUTO" to
> work as I expect.  I
> > was hoping that this option would force a lable
> along the line.  Instead
> > I just get labels at 0 degrees.  Can anyone help? 
> Here is my layer:
> >
> > LAYER
> >   STATUS DEFAULT
> >   TYPE LINE
> >   DATA street_cl_named
> >   LABELITEM "STRTNAME"
> >   CLASSITEM "STRTNAME"
> >   LABELMAXSCALE 6000
> >   CLASS
> >     LABEL
> >       ANGLE AUTO
> >       POSITION AUTO
> >       COLOR 0 0 0
> >       SIZE small
> >     END # Label
> >   END
> > END
> >
> 


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