Once again: Truetype symbols {Scanned}

[Siki Zoltan]

Hi,

You can use symbol fonts only, (as far as i know) so esri symbols are ok
but arial, times, etc. not.
In the symbol definition you must add 61440 to the code of the character.

SYMBOL
        NAME 'example'
        TYPE TRUETYPE
        FONT your_symbol_font
        CHARACTER "&#61481"     # for code 41
END

Bye
Zoltan


On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, TC Haddad wrote:

> Frank,
>
> did you try something like this in your map file:
>
>    CLASS
>      Name "Arbres isol=E9s"
>      Template "dasistegal.html"
>     STYLE
>       Symbol "Tree"
>       Color 255 0 0
>       Size 50
>     END
>    END
>
> I think STYLE is mandatory for Mapserver 4.x
>
> Tanya
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:13:54 +0200, Frank Broniewski
> <Frank.Broniewski at MNHA.ETAT.LU> wrote:
>
> >Hello List
> >
> >I am trying to use some characters from esris ttf fonts for my map. But I
> >only get squares as symbols, not the expected Treesymbol. I even tried to
> >use the arial font, but even there I get only squares. Does anybody have a
> >clue what this is about? I tried changing fonts, renaming the fonts, tried
> >using the Ascii codes instead of typing the letter but nothing helped.
> >I did search the archives for such behavior, but the tips mentioned there
> >(moving the symbols to symbol file) did not help.
> >
> >I run mapserver on Windows Xp Home with Sp2, Apache 2.0.50 and PHP 4.3.8
> >installed. Mapserver Version is 4.2.1, PHP Map Script info from phpinfo()
> is
> >$Revision: 1.194.2.4 $ $Date: 2004/07/07 19:37:19 $
> >
> >I created a symbol definition file which contains my "symbol". Here is the
> >relevant part:
> >  SYMBOL
> >    NAME "Tree"
> >    TYPE TRUETYPE
> >    FONT forest2
> >    FILLED TRUE
> >    ANTIALIAS TRUE
> >    CHARACTER "j"
> >  END
> >
> >In the fontlist I defined the font forest2:
> >forest2   c:\windows\fonts\esri_652.ttf
> >
> >In the mapfile I call the symbol with the following lines of code:
> >   CLASS
> >     Name "Arbres isolés"
> >     Template "dasistegal.html"
> >     Symbol "Tree"
> >     Color 255 0 0
> >     Size 50
> >   END
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Frank Broniewski
> >Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art
> >Section Préhistoire / Projet EPC
>