[mapserver-users] True Type font

[Chad Streck]

This may not be too helpful, but you must play with the paths in the 
font list.  I've pointed all my font paths with full paths, such as....

arial    /var/www/html/fonts/arial.ttf

On windows, I do a similar thing, but I had problem with the drive 
letters, and had to use forward slashes, so it would look like this....

arial    /inetpub/wwwroot/fonts/arial.ttf



Chad


Yeewen Sat wrote:

> I'm having problem using True Type fonts. I get this 
> "msGetLabelSize(): TrueType Font error. Could not find/open font" 
> error when I define LABEL to use TYPE TRUETYPE. If I just use the 
> default Bitmap, the labels show up no problem.
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> Please help.
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> I'm running mapserver 4.3 on Linux.
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> Here's a cut out of the mapfile:
> 
> #
> # Start of map file
> #
> NAME SDB
> STATUS ON
> SIZE 450 450
> SYMBOLSET "../symbol/newsym.sym"
> FONTSET "/web/sdbdev/packages/dv-mapping/fonts/fonts.list"
> EXTENT 10478669.720365 6193732.674832 10521330.299635 6282545.399534
> UNITS METERS
> SHAPEPATH "../data/ywseis4"
> IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
> #
> # Start of web interface definition
> #
> WEB
>   TEMPLATE "../www/java-template2.html"
>   MINSCALE 25000
>   MAXSCALE 14000000
>   IMAGEPATH "../www/tmp/"
>   IMAGEURL "/dv-mapping/tmp/"
>   LOG "../www/tmp/logfile.log"
> END
> 
> #
> 
> # Start of layer definitions
> #
> LAYER
>   NAME dgridt
>   TYPE ANNOTATION
>   STATUS DEFAULT
>   DATA dgridt
>   CLASSITEM 'ID'
>   MAXSCALE 750000
>   LABELITEM "TEXT"
>   LABELMAXSCALE 750000
>   SYMBOLSCALE 200000
>   CLASS
>     EXPRESSION /./
>     LABEL
>       COLOR 0 0 0
>       TYPE TRUETYPE
>       FONT arial
>       FORCE true
>       SIZE 10
>       ANGLE 405.000000
>       POSITION lc
>       MAXSIZE 24
>       MINSIZE 4
>     END
>   END
> END
> 
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> 
> The fonts.list file looks like this:
> 
> arial                           arial.ttf
> arial-bold                      arialbd.ttf
> arial-italic                    ariali.ttf
> arial-bold-italic               arialbi.ttf
> arial_black                     ariblk.ttf
> comic_sans                      comic.ttf
> comic_sans-bold                 comicbd.ttf
> courier                         cour.ttf
> courier-bold                    courbd.ttf
> courier-italic                  couri.ttf
> courier-bold-italic             courbi.ttf
> georgia                         georgia.ttf
> georgia-bold                    georgiab.ttf
> georgia-italic                  georgiai.ttf
> georgia-bold-italic             georgiaz.ttf
> impact                          impact.ttf
> monotype.com                    monotype.ttf
> recreation_symbols              recreate.ttf
> times                           times.ttf
> times-bold                      timesbd.ttf
> times-italic                    timesi.ttf
> times-bold-italic               timesbi.ttf
> trebuchet_ms                    trebuc.ttf
> trebuchet_ms-bold               trebucbd.ttf
> trebuchet_ms-italic             trebucit.ttf
> trebuchet_ms-bold-italic        trebucbi.ttf
> verdana                         verdana.ttf
> verdana-bold                    verdanab.ttf
> verdana-italic                  verdanai.ttf
> verdana-bold-italic             verdanaz.ttf
> 
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> Please help.
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> Thanks.
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