[Mapserver-users] TrueType Font and Label Angle

[Jonathan W. Lowe]

Questions (for Daniel?) about the freetype1 vs. freetype2 problem:

1) Why does the same version of gd + freetype2 result in a successful
mapserver compilation (i.e. no label angle problems) on RedHat 8.0, but
not on FreeBSD?

2) If freetype2 is a problem, why is it the default in the mapserver
Makefile?

3) And, if there is a bug in freetype2, rather than avoiding freetype2
altogether (an endeavor raising its own set of problems), why not get
the bug fixed?  Is it a known bug?  Has anyone from the list identified
the bug and/or contacted the freetype developer(s) to report it?  

(If this is much easier said than done, please forgive my naivete.)

Thank you,
Jonathan Lowe

On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 21:42, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> "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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