[mapserver-users] More TrueType woes

[thorsten fischer]

Ladies and gentlemappers,


I encounter more weird TrueType behaviour. TrueType fonts not working
was the last hindrance to deliver the application to the client, and
thanks to this list i had fonts up and running properly.

Unfortunately, at the client's site, font creation in maps break
horribly. Where at my development system everything is looking great
(anti-aliasing, nice black Times font with white border, scaling
properly when zooming in and out), they look like &$%! on the target
system. Borders show deep artifacts, no anti-aliasing is seen, and
colors of the labels change (!) when you zoom (!!) or pan (!!!).
Unfortunately, I have no screenshot available.

Strange enough, the .tif images below that and the vector layers
generated from shape files get displayed properly. This is not a matter
of screen resolution or color depth on the client's browser (I checked
that first). The installation process and scripts for the mapserver
setup (including the TrueType font files), as well as the libraries used
and the operation system version below it are the same as on my
development system.

I spent some hours figuring this out, but to no avail. Any hint out
there? Pointers to obvious solutions are appreciated too, maybe I missed
something.


cheers (trying to),

thorsten

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Thorsten Fischer        thfischer at mapmedia.de

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