[Mapserver-users] TrueType Font and Label Angle

[Daniel Morissette]

"Jonathan W. Lowe" wrote:
> 
> For what it's worth, my installation on RedHat 8.0 didn't have the label angle
> problems, so it is possible to successfully compile the software on Linux.  At
> one point in my efforts to overcome the label angle problems, I found a
> reference that said the mere presence of freetype2 might force the compiler to
> use freetype2 (the supposed culprit in the label angle problem) rather than
> freetype1.  Do you have root access to the system on which you are compiling?  I
>  had to isolate libraries like gd and freetype in a local directory in order to
> be sure my compilation used exactly the libraries I intended it to use.
> 

FYI there is a --enable-force-freetype1 configure switch in 3.6.x and
3.7 to try to force detection of Freetype 1 in priority over freetype 2
when a system has both.  Starting with RH 7.x and 8.x this is very
useful if you want to compile with your own custom GD with freetype 1.3.

Daniel
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