[mapserver-users] Font as a symbol?

[Pushkar Pradhan]

Okay a very silly question to use truetype fonts, do I need to download
them separately from freetype.org?
I am on Unix, can't I use the system's fonts (if they are there)?
PHP compiled with:
./configure  --prefix=/rstc/user1/erc/pushkar/php-4.0.6
--with-regex=system --enable-discard-path --enable-dbase

MS options:
# ./configure  --without-tiff --without-jpeg
--with-gdal=../gdal-1.1.5/apps/gdal-config --with-php=../php-4.0.6
--without-ttf

Thanks,

> This bug has been fixed in the 3.7 source so it won't matter where you put the definition, but Rich is correct in the workaround for older versions.
>
> Steve
>
> Stephen Lime
> Data & Applications Manager
>
> Minnesota DNR
> 500 Lafayette Road
> St. Paul, MN 55155
> 651-297-2937
>
> >>> Richard Greenwood <Rich at GreenwoodMap.com> 06/05/02 03:24PM >>>
> 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
>
>

-Pushkar S. Pradhan