[mapserver-users] truetype symbols

[Richard Greenwood]

At 04:49 PM 10/10/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>The font file I am attempting to use is one that ESRI released some time
>ago.  Specifically it is ESRITransportationMunicipal.ttf.  I believe
>that it is UNICODE mapped.  I tried the constant character 'e' as well
>as CHARACTER   "e".  When I load the font file into gfontview I can
>see that the airplane image that I am hoping to use is encoded as 'e'

Don't define the symbol in the map file, define it in the symbol file (just 
move the definition from the map file to the symbol file).

Rich

>.
>
>Have I gone wrong somewhere?
>
>Cordially,
>
>Joe Bussell
>On Time Systems
>www.TrafficDodger.com
>
>On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 04:31:30PM -0500, Steve Lime wrote:
> > First thing to check is the font itself. Does it have a UNICODE
> > character mapping?
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > Stephen Lime
> > Data & Applications Manager
> >
> > Minnesota DNR
> > 500 Lafayette Road
> > St. Paul, MN 55155
> > 651-297-2937
> >
> > >>> Joe Bussell <joe at otsys.com> 10/10/02 03:36PM >>>
> > Greetings Listers and Lurkers,
> >     I have just made a first attempt to apply a truetype symbol with
> > no
> > success.  I have data for airport locations in a group of shapefiles
> > tied together with a tileIndex.  Presently I use a user defined circle
> > symbol declared as type ELIPSE.  I downloaded a ttf font set that
> > included an airplane image as one of the characters.  I believed form
> > the documentation site that I could use this symbol in my mapfile as
> > an
> > R-value for the SYMBOL object in a CLASS object.
> >
> >     I defined my symbol in my mapfile as such:
> >
> > SYMBOL
> >     NAME        "airportIcon"
> >     TYPE        TRUETYPE
> >     FONT        transport
> >     FILLED      true
> >     ANTIALIAS   true
> >     CHARACTER   "e"
> > END
> >
> > In my fontlist file I declare transport to point to the path of the
> > font
> > that I downloaded.  I verified that the font was available by writing
> > a
> > label with it (looked weird, but it did what I wanted).  I attempted to
> >
> > make use of the defined symbol in the following mapfile snippet:
> >
> > LAYER
> >     NAME    pointsOfInterrest
> >     GROUP   defaultLayer
> >     TYPE    POINT
> >     TILEINDEX td_pi.shp    #  DATA usa06037______pi
> >     STATUS  ON
> >     LABELITEM "NAME"
> >     CLASSITEM "FEATTYP"
> >     MAXSCALE    150000
> > ... snip ...
> >     CLASS
> >         # airport
> >         EXPRESSION ( ( [FEATTYP] = 7383 ) )
> >         NAME "Airport"
> >         BACKGROUNDCOLOR 255 255 255
> >         COLOR   0 0 0
> >         OUTLINECOLOR    255 0 0
> >         SIZE    20
> >         SYMBOL  "airportIcon"
> >         LABEL
> >             ANGLE           AUTO
> >             ANTIALIAS       TRUE
> >             BUFFER          2
> >             COLOR           0 0 0
> >             WRAP " "
> >             FONT            Arial
> >             FORCE           TRUE
> >             MAXSIZE         256
> >             MINDISTANCE     10
> >             MINSIZE         4
> >             OFFSET          0 0
> >             PARTIALS        TRUE
> >             POSITION        lr
> >             SIZE            6
> >             TYPE            TRUETYPE
> >         END
> >     END
> > ... snip ...
> > END
> >
> > The feature does not appear, nor does its label.  If I replace
> > "airportIcon" with "circle" I get the results that we currently
> > display.
> > Any ideas on how to get ttf symbols to work?
> > -
> >
> > Cordially,
> >
> > Joe Bussell
> > On Time Systems
> > www.TrafficDodger.com
> >
> >
>
>--
>
>Cordially,
>
>Joe Bussell
>On Time Systems
>www.TrafficDodger.com

Richard W. Greenwood, PLS
(307) 733-0203
Rich at GreenwoodMap.com
www.GreenwoodMap.com