[mapserver-users] Font as a symbol?

[Richard Greenwood]

I ran into this also. Putting the truetype symbol definition into the 
SYMBOLSET file, rather than defining it in the .map file fixed it for me.

Rich

At 02:05 PM 6/5/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>We are having no luck trying to use a font for a symbol.  The following is
>the relevant code.  Any suggestions would be helpful.  We do not get any
>errors, the symbols just don't show.
>
>
><symbol definition in mapfile>
>SYMBOL
>   NAME "arial"
>   TYPE TRUETYPE
>   FONT arial
>   FILLED false
>   ANTIALIAS true
>   CHARACTER "a"
>END
>
><layer definition in mapfile>
>LAYER
>   NAME stories
>   METADATA
>     "DESCRIPTION"   "Local Stories"
>     "RESULT_FIELDS" "STORY_ID"
>   END
>   TYPE POINT
>   STATUS DEFAULT
>   TOLERANCE 10
>   TOLERANCEUNITS pixels
>   CLASS
>     NAME "Icon_id"
>     TEMPLATE void
>     SYMBOL 'arial'
>     SIZE 10
>     COLOR 0 0 0
>   END
>END
>
><fonset definition in mapfile>
>FONTSET "c:/inetpub/wwwroot/digilib/mapserver/fonts/fonts.txt"
>
><font mapping in font.txt>
>arial
>c:/zinetpub/wwwroot/digilib/mapserver/fonts/ARIAL.TTF
>
>
>Regards,
>Joost van Ulden
>Data Integration Specialist
>GSC-Pacific Division
>101-605 Robson St.
>Vancouver, BC V6B 5J3
>604.666.7525
>jvanulde at nrcan.gc.ca


Richard W. Greenwood, PLS
Greenwood Mapping, Inc.
Rich at GreenwoodMap.com
(307) 733-0203
http://www.GreenwoodMap.com