Using truetype fonts (Linux)

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Stephen,

The file format is lines like:

<font_name>  </path/to/font/file>
arial       /usr/share/fonts/truetype/arial.ttf
arial-bold  /usr/share/fonts/truetype/arial-bold.ttf

I think blank lines are ignored and maybe lines starting with '#', but 
not sure on these.

<font_name> it the name you refer to in your mapfile
</path/to/font/file> is the actual path to the font file you want to use

-Steve W.

Stephen Davies wrote:
> G'day.
> 
> I see references in postings and doco to fonts.list as what looks like a  
> mechanism for telling mapserver where to find truetype fonts but I 
> cannot find anything to tell me the format of this file.
> 
> The recent paper on cartographic symbols refers to "the ALIAS name of 
> the font file to the parameter FONT as defined in the file fonts.list".
> What does this mean?
> 
> I have a pretty full set of truetype fonts installed and use them 
> successfully with other software but have no file called fonts.list 
> anywhere on the system.
> 
> Is this maybe a windows-specific thing?
> If so, how does one use truetype fonts with mapserver under Linux?
> 
> Cheers and thanks,
> Stephen
>