[mapserver-users] SVG text

thomas bonfort thomas.bonfort at gmail.com
Tue Dec 31 04:14:44 PST 2013


Jefferson,
There is currently no way to produce those elements with mapserver,
and to my knowledge there are no plans to do so yet. A specific
rendering driver would need to be implemented to achieve this, but has
not yet been funded or proposed.

regards,
thomas

On 24 December 2013 17:42, Jefferson Williams
<jefferson.d.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm a long-time user of PHP Mapscript and have written code to produce maps
> for Wikipedia.  Older versions of Mapscript produced SVG files that
> contained text elements.  In more recent versions, text is produced as a
> series of vectors instead, which means that the text cannot be edited.
> Often auto-generated maps need to be tweaked in various ways before they are
> ready for the public. Now I can move text, but I cannot edit it.
>
> Is there a way with 6.2 or 6.4 that labels can be produced as text elements
> in the resulting SVG file?
>
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>
> Jeff Williams
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