[Mapserver-users] Working with TrueType Fonts

[krung]

Hi Calin,

What platform do you use? On my experience, if Windows, it would show as you want, but Linux not. If Linux, I used full path to font file,eg.

fritqat               /your/fonts/path/fritqat.ttf
fritqat-bold          /your/fonts/path/fritqtb0.ttf
fritqat-italic        /your/fonts/path/fritqti0.ttf
fritqat-bold-italic   /your/fonts/path/fritqtb2.ttf

And don't forget to set file and directory permission to your server session.

HTH
Krung

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Calin D. NITU" <calin at internetgids.be>
Date:  Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:24:37 +0100

>I am trying to display a True Type font. My map file looks like:
>
>    map
>    extent 76952.80 189962.49 92359.36 202061.55
>    name "test 2"
>    shapepath "data"
>    size 600 450
>    status on
>    fontset 'font/fonts.txt'
>    units meters
>     ........
>     ........
>     LAYER
>        NAME roads_name_init
>        GROUP "roads"
>        DATA "roads"
>        MINSCALE 5000
>        STATUS ON
>        TYPE ANNOTATION
>        LABELCACHE ON
>        LABELITEM "NUMBER"
>        CLASS
>           LABEL
>              TYPE truetype
>              FONT fritqat
>             MINFEATURESIZE AUTO
>             MINDISTANCE 100
>             ANTIALIAS TRUE
>             COLOR 0 0 0
>             OUTLINECOLOR 220 220 220
>             SIZE 11
>             ANGLE AUTO
>             POSITION AUTO
>             OFFSET 0 2
>              buffer 2
>          END #LABEL
>       END #CLASS
>END #LAYER ROADS-NAME
>
>I created a directory called FONT under the directory where it is the
>'*.map' file
>Here I put all the TTF files and I created a list with the fonts - named
>FONTS.TXT:
>        fritqat                     fritqat.ttf
>        fritqat-bold             fritqtb0.ttf
>        fritqat-italic             fritqti0.ttf
>        fritqat-bold-italic     fritqtb2.ttf
>
>
> The error that I get is
>           -  "MapServer Error in msGetLabelSize(): Could not find/open font
>in <the PHP file>....." - with PHP environment
>           -  "msGetLabelSize(): TrueType Font error. Could not find/open
>font"       - with clasic HTML
>
>We are using the stabile version of MAPSERVER 3.6.
>
>Thank you,
>Calin
>
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