problem with fonts and demos

mocha mochaexpress at yahoo.com
Thu May 25 17:57:52 EDT 2000


i think your files may contain ^M at the end of each line. i had the same 
problem. more file.name didn't show it. but it did show in vi. you'd need 
to s/r all of the ^M (remove them).

At 11:08 AM 5/25/00 -0300, Marcio Augusto Stocco wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I installed MapServer 3.2 and the 3.2 Demo, and it works ok, but doesn't
>draw the city names.
>
>I've downloaded some free true type fonts from the web, and put them in
>/usr/apps/mapserv/symbols/fonts. Then, I modified the font directory name
>in the mapserv.ini file. After that, I wrote two diferent fonts.list file,
>because the README statement doesn't match the example file.
>Unfortunatelly, neither worked.
>
>After the message about the 3.3 demo, I decided to upgrade. But now, I
>can't even get the first map. When initializing, mapserv displays the
>following error message:
>
>msLoadSymbolFile(): Unknown identifier. ():(0)
>
>Any clue will help.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Márcio.




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