[mapserver-users] truetype weirdness

[thorsten fischer]

> Did you recompile your own GD on a system that already came with GD
> preloaded in the system libs by any chance?

I did indeed recompile gd, as well as everything else. But as gd comes
only as a static library in its Makefile configuration by default, it
should not care about any system libs at that point. Therefore invoking
'ldd' does not show any reference to libgd (it is part of the
executable).

> You might want to use 'ldd mapserv' to double-check that the right copy
> of gd and of the supporting freetype get picked.  That's the best I can
> think of... this really looks like a system configuration issue. 

It looks for me that way too. But: it happens on clean out-of-the-box
installs of SuSE 7.3 too. No comments on pros and cons of that distro
please ;)

There is a patch to make gd compile as a shared library; i am trying to
apply it to my own patches i use (because of the broken paths that live
in the gd Makefile) and recompile; i will let you know what happens.

cheers,


thorsten



> thorsten fischer wrote:
> > 
> > The WMS enabled box only returns the following message:
> > 
> > <ServiceException>
> > msGetLabelSize(): TrueType Font error. Could not find/open font
> > </ServiceException>
> > 
> > Fontpath is set, the directory exist and is readable. The 'fontlist'
> > file contains valid entries, the .ttf files exist, they are readable as
> > well and are valid truetype font files. clases, labelitems and
> > classitems are properly set up; uncommenting the bitmap font parts above
> > delivers valid results.
> > 
> > # mapserv -v
> > MapServer version 3.5 (beta) OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP
> > SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=TTF SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER INPUT=TIFF INPUT=EPPL7
> > INPUT=JPEG INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> > 
> 

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