[mapserver-dev] Inline FONT references

[Dan Little]

Actually, defining them inline would make things work much better if you're using INCLUDEs that feature relative paths.  The FONTSET path gets messed up if it is included in, say, a "GLOBALS.MAP" file.



----- Original Message ----
> From: Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com>
> To: Andy Colson <andy at squeakycode.net>
> Cc: MapServer Dev Mailing List <mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> Sent: Tue, December 8, 2009 9:12:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] Inline FONT references
> 
> Andy Colson wrote:
> > On 12/08/2009 04:36 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> >> Devs,
> >> 
> >> I'm giving the QGIS dev team feedback on the MapServer Export tool
> >> (which has ability to export 'views' from QGIS to a mapfile). One thing
> >> they need to do is to export fonts for labeled features into a mapfile.
> >> They are wondering if there is any way possible to have an inline font
> >> in the mapfile (similar to how we can have an inline symbol, not
> >> referenced to an external symbol file). Since I believe the answer is
> >> 'no, can't be done', can we suggest some ways to help the QGIS devs
> >> through this issue?
> >> 
> >> Thoughts?
> >> 
> >> -jeff
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> > How about a map level default label.  Then inside classes/etc you can use 
> 'label default'.  Or something like that.
> 
> I like the idea of inline font resources.
> I have moved to mostly using inline symbol resources in my mapfiles.
> 
> I could see something like:
> 
> FONTDEFS
>   "arial"        "/path/to/arial.ttf"
>   "arial-bold"   "/path/to/arialbd.ttf"
> END
> 
> The one advantage to having all the define in a fontset.txt file a referencing 
> it is that if you move you fonts you only have to update one file and all your 
> mapfiles read it. Using the above would require you editing all your mapfiles 
> and some sites have a lot of them. But that said there is no reason both could 
> not be supported.
> 
> -Steve W
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