[mapserver-dev] Fractional label sizes (post RFC49 comments)

[Steve Lime]

I'm cool with it as well. The attribute binding will also need a tweak to use the double
conversion routine instead of the int.

Steve

>>> On 1/28/2009 at 11:42 AM, in message
<d2b988930901280942r7292a863gf885ed17d903f459 at mail.gmail.com>, thomas bonfort
<thomas.bonfort at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tamas,
> I have no objection for this change
> For pixmap fonts, the size will have to be MS_NINT'd so as to fall
> back to one of the gd predefined constants. You might also want to
> look into the label's min/max size and see if they need to be adjusted
> and/or transformed to doubles also.
> 
> best regards,
> thomas
> 
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 22:27, Tamas Szekeres <szekerest at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> It would be reasonable to add fractional label size support as per RFC49
>> before the next release. (I thought it has already been addressed by this
>> RFC but unfortunately not). I guess however it wouldn't be a big deal since
>> either GD or AGG use label sizes of data type double internally when
>> rendering truetype labels. By adding this option I guess we could easily
>> configure scale dependent labels either with the SIZEUNITS=DD settings.
>> Another reason I've come up with this feature is to get better support of
>> setting the label sizes for OGR and using the STYLEITEM=AUTO option and
>> having the label sizes in map ground units in the mapinfo layer.
>>
>> I'd volunteer to support this change within RFC49 if no one will object to
>> this.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Tamas
>>
>>
>>
>>
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