[mapserver-users] SVG text

[Jefferson Williams]

In doing some searching, I found this from a couple of years ago.  I don't
know if it is helpful or not, but it could be a starting point...

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2011-February/021777.html

It turns out I raised this same question myself back then, and Thomas
responded then too and provided the link above.  I'm afraid I forgot about
that!  So, sorry for the duplication; but it's still a feature that seems
valuable to me. Perhaps if there is enough interest this could be
developed, as Matt suggests.


On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Jefferson Williams <
jefferson.d.williams at gmail.com> wrote:

> Matt, excellent idea!
>
> I should also modify my statement. I am sure there were good reasons for
> going to Cairo. I don't want to say it was a step backwards generally. But
> for those of us that want to auto generate map labels, it was...
>
> --
>
> Jeff
> On Dec 31, 2013 7:55 AM, "Matt McClelland" <matt at wildwalks.com> wrote:
>
>> I would also like the SVG text feature.
>> Thomas, could you guess at the hours (or cost) involved to add this?
>> Maybe there are a few people with the need that can pitch in?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Matt :)
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 31/12/2013, at 11:49 PM, Jefferson Williams <
>> jefferson.d.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you for the reply. But that is very disappointing. It appears that
>> going to Cairo was essentially a step backwards, as this used to be
>> possible and now it is not. Surely the value of this feature is clear... It
>> makes SVGs smaller and more efficient (where text is involved) and makes
>> them more editable.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Jeff
>> On Dec 31, 2013 7:14 AM, "thomas bonfort" <thomas.bonfort at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> >
>>> > Jeff Williams
>>> >
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Jeff Williams
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