[mapserver-users] truetype support for 3.5 win binaries?

[Zhou Xu]

I find the same error message, but when I give the full path of the font file, I succeeded.
Maybe this can help.

On 2001-8-13 10:17:00, you wrote:
>Is there any win binary for ms 3.5 that has truetype support built in? The
>readme file says
> 'compiled with this distribution are:
>  PNG, JPEG, TIFF/GeoTIFF, Proj4, Freetype 2.'
>
>but when I configure labels to use truetype I get the following error
>message:
>
>'msGetLabelSize(): TrueType Font error. libgd was not built with TrueType
>font support'.
>
>I used the gif version (the readme file is probably the same for png and
>gif). The php enabled version from dm solutions offers tt support but the
>result of the output is a bit poor, no comparison to the good quality from
>the ms 3.4.
>
>I dont't have a clue, is it necessary to install Freetype additionally?
>
>Thanks for any help
>
>Armin
>
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>Armin Burger
>Territorium Online
>Siemensstrasse/Via Siemens 19 - 39100 Bozen/Bolzano - Italia
>_



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