TrueType Symbols {Scanned}

[Siki Zoltan]

Hi,

If your font is a symbol font, then the character codes are big
numbers. There were some threads on the list some monthes ago.

Zoltan

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, [iso-8859-1] Irene Pérez wrote:

> Yes, the layer draws with non-true type symbols. I've tried with the defs you sent but it keeps not working.
> Any other suggestion?
> Thanks!
>
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> Steve Lime <steve.lime at DNR.STATE.MN.US> wrote:
> Does the layer draw with non-truetype symbols? I've been using this recently without problems with defs like:
>
> SYMBOL
> NAME 'blank_marker'
> TYPE TRUETYPE
> FONT 'recsym'
> CHARACTER 'ť'
> ANTIALIAS TRUE
> END
>
> SYMBOL
> NAME 'parking_marker'
> TYPE TRUETYPE
> FONT 'recsym'
> CHARACTER 'm'
> ANTIALIAS TRUE
> END
>
> Steve
>
> >>> Irene Pérez 02/08/05 9:46 AM >>>
> Dear sirs,
> I'm trying to make a TrueType Symbol, but the map is not generated and no error message is shown.
> The library GD supports Freetype, so... żwhat may the problem be?
> In the mapserver config: SUPPORTS=FREETYPE ...
>
> I'm trying with de example:
> SYMBOL
> NAME "natcap"
> TYPE TRUETYPE
> FONT geo
> FILLED true
> ANTIALIAS true
> CHARACTER "r"
> END
>
> LAYER
> NAME "PRUEBA"
> CLASS
> NAME ...
> SYMBOL "natcap"
> END
> But it doesn't work. I've tried everything that came into my imagination, but nothing worked...
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
> Kind regards,
>
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