[Mapserver-users] problem on symbol rendering from a truetype font

[Lowther, David W]

Roberto,

Maybe if you added a field to your DBF with the character for the weather
font you wanted to symbolize you could label using the weather font?

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roberto_Santinelli [mailto:Roberto.Santinelli at pg.infn.it] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 9:08 AM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: [Mapserver-users] problem on symbol rendering from a 
> truetype font
> 
> 
> HI every body,
> just today i understood a nice way to solve my problem about 
> the rendering of 
> symbol from ArcView to MapServer but, as you know, a solution 
> would imply a lot 
> of many other problem.....exactly like chinese box.
> Ok let me try to explain you my topic.
> I have the need to convert an arcview pallette (avp) in to a ttf file 
> (TrueTypeFont).
> (BY THE WAY, there is someone knowing how to do.....)
> 
> Let me suppose now i ' m able to have a true type font from 
> ArcView and let me 
> show you the following piece of my map file:
> 
> 
> LAYER
>  NAME capitals
>  TYPE POINT
>  STATUS ON
>  DATA Center.shp
>    CLASS 
>     SYMBOL 'natcap'
>     NAME 'capitals'
>     COLOR 255 255 0
>     OUTLINE COLOR 0 0 0 
>    END
> END
> ......
> ......
> 
> SYMBOL 
>  NAME 'natcap'
>  TYPE TRUETYPE
>  FONT WEATHER
>  FILLED TRUE
>  ANTIALIAS TRUE
>  CHARACTER ""  #this choise is pretty random!
> END
> 
> --**********--------------------
> The FONT WEATHER is correcly setted and also it's present in 
> my font.list file. I also put all the ttf file in the same 
> subdirectory as well as font.list 
> file.
> 
> The problem:
> MS is unable to display my capitals. I have a completly wide 
> windows.
> I also tried other way. For examle replaced this symbol 
> definition with 
> the following:
> *---------------------
> SYMBOL
>  Name 'natcap'
>  TYPE PIXMAP
>  Images 'symbols/images/centri.gif'
> END
> *---------------------
> In this case it display correctly all my capitals.
> 
> Dues to the fact i had also problem in the visualization of 
> legend using 
> truetype font, i changed my Mapserver passing from 3.7 to 3.6 
> (with GDAL 
> support, essential for my purpose).
> Now i'm able to see my legend with arial-bold font,but not 
> yet able to display 
> my capitals, even if the Weather.ttf file is present.
> 
> Some suggestions?
> 
>  How to do?
> 
> Thanks again in advance for your help
> 
> 
> All the best 
> Roberto Santinelli
> 
> 
> 
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