[mapserver-users] TRUETYPE not work

[woodbri at swoodbridge.com]

William,

Did you get this to work yet? Looks like you need to specify a font 
size. There are no defaults for any of this stuff.

-Steve

On 30 Aug 2002 at 16:12, Zhang, William wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> Yes, I have the MapFile Reference document. I did not specify font in my map
> file just for simplifying the test. I thought that some default font would
> be used by mapserver if no font is specified by user. Is this true? Anyway
> now I add font related lines in the map file below. It still does not work.
> 
> NAME alm
> EXTENT  -122.0837 37.6683 -122.1104 37.6885
> SIZE 800 600
> SHAPEPATH "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\test\tutorial35"
> FONTSET "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\test\fonts\fonts.list"
>   LAYER    
>     TYPE LINE
>     STATUS DEFAULT
>     DATA alm
>     LABELITEM "FENAME"
>     CLASS
>       COLOR 255 0 0
>       LABEL
>         TYPE TRUETYPE
>         ANTIALIAS
> 	FONT arial	
>         COLOR 0 0 0		
> 	ANGLE AUTO
> 	POSITION UC	
>       END	
>     END
>   END
> END # end of map file
> 
> I have one line in the fonts.list file
> 	arial		arial.ttf
> 
> I also copy the arial.ttf file to the same directory as fonts.list located.
> 
> Do I miss something else?
> 
> Thank you for the help.
> 
> 
> William
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: woodbri at swoodbridge.com [mailto:woodbri at swoodbridge.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 7:32 PM
> To: Zhang, William; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] TRUETYPE not work
> 
> 
> William,
> 
> Do you have a Map file Reference document?
> You need to look at the LABEL section, you will see that it mentions 
> a FONT tag which references an item in a FONTSET. The document will 
> also tell you how to set up the FONTSET file which will need to point 
> to the the fonts on your system.
> 
> The documentation page can be found off the Mapserver home page.
> 
> -Steve
> 
> On 29 Aug 2002 at 22:04, Zhang, William wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I got error in the map file below. If I comment out TRUETYPE releated
> lines,
> > the map file works. I downloaded the mapserv.exe from Windows Binary
> > Download page, so it should be TRUETYPE enabled. Could somebody give me
> help
> > on this one?
> > 
> > 
> > NAME alm
> > EXTENT  -122.0837 37.6683 -122.1104 37.6885
> > SIZE 800 600
> > SHAPEPATH "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\test\tutorial35"
> >    LAYER    
> >      TYPE LINE
> >      STATUS DEFAULT
> >      DATA alm
> >      LABELITEM "FENAME"
> >      CLASS
> >         COLOR 255 0 0
> >         LABEL
> >            TYPE TRUETYPE
> >            ANTIALIAS	
> >            COLOR 0 0 0		
> > 	ANGLE AUTO
> > 	POSITION UC	
> >         END	
> >      END
> >   END
> > END # end of map file
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > William Zhang
> > 
> > Software Engineer
> > C-Cor.net
> > Phone: (925) 251-3019
> > Fax: (925) 467-0600
> > E-Mail: wzhang at c-cor.net
> > 
> > 
> 
>