[Mapserver-users] rotated label

[Vincent Schut]

Hi Siki,

it is a guess, but there were (are?) some problems with font rotation and 
certain versions of libGD. If you are not using the latest version (2.0.15 I 
think) you might try upgrading and recompiling mapserver using that version 
(make sure to use the --with-gd=path/to/gd switch, otherwise it will use the 
one that came with php if you compile with --with-php, which certainly will 
be an older one). Also, if I remember well, only truetype fonts can be 
rotated, so make sure to use truetype fonts. I do not know about a minimal 
version number for freetype, but this might be worth checking too.

Cheers,
Vincent.

On Wednesday 06 August 2003 02:11, Siki Zoltan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I get into trouble with rotated labels, I tried 3.6.5 3.6.6 4.0
> with freetype 2.1.4.
>
> layer definition from the map file:
> LAYER
>     NAME "streat_names"
>     DATA xshp/unev1
>     STATUS ON
>     GROUP "annotation"
>     TYPE LINE
>     LABELITEM "NAME"
>     LABELMAXSCALE 5000
>     CLASS
>         COLOR -1 -1 -1
>         LABEL
>             COLOR 200 0 200
>             ANGLE AUTO
>             SIZE 12
>             FONT timb
>             TYPE TRUETYPE
>         END
>     END
> END
>
> There is a line in fonts.lst file:
> timb /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType/timb____.ttf
>
> I get text where letters are not rotated but the position is
> changed for each characters e.g. a text at 45 degree
>
> s          or           e
>  a                     l
>   m                   p
>    p                 m
>     l               a
>      e             s
>
> Any idea?
>
> Tankx

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