FONTSET problem on mac os x - empty rectangles in the image

[William Kyngesburye]

I was thinking it might be an encoding problem.  Now that I look  
closely at the font you are using, that's not a good choice.  A lot  
of the fonts installed in /Library/Fonts by the system are for extra  
language support (pretty much all the ttf fonts and dfonts).  'HB' is  
for Hebrew.

You should use "Arial" ('arial2' in your fonts.lst).  The problem  
there is that Arial is a Mac font suitcase, and Fink's freetype may  
not be built properly to handle that, or could be an old freetype - I  
had problems a while back building my freetype framework so that Mac  
suitcase support worked, but it was fixed in a later FT version.

Even if it does properly support Mac suitcases, MapServer doesn't  
support font file face indexes, so you won't be able to get the  
different styles from within the suitcase, just the first font face,  
which isn't necessarily the plain face.

You're better off finding a .ttf Arial (that is, 4 font files for the  
various styles).

On Oct 15, 2007, at 11:09 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:

> The problem is that the arial    /Library/Fonts/ArialHB.ttf font  
> you are using is not the same encoding as the shapefile data.
>
> -Steve
>
>>> Webb Sprague wrote:
>>>> Hi again
>>>>
>>>> Here is the my font file (yes, the files do exist):
>>>>
>>>> MAPSCRIPT[2]$ cat fonts.list
>>>> arial    /Library/Fonts/ArialHB.ttf
>>>> arial2    /Library/Fonts/Arial

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