[Mapserver-users] How to Draw Annotation Layer Last

[woodbri at swoodbridge.com]

Dan,

Try adding to your LABEL section:

TYPE bitmap

and see if that helps.

-Steve W.

On 22 Jan 2003 at 16:09, Dan Barron wrote:

> TH,
> 
> I commented out all the label objects from all the layers except the
> credits layer and still receive the error
> 
> Fatal error: MapServer Error in msGetBitmapFont(): Invalid bitmap
> font. Must be one of tiny, small, medium, large or giant.
> 
> I have upgraded to MapServer 3.6.4 and PHP/Mapscript 3.6 w/ PHP 4.3.0
> - same results.
> 
> I am sure it will end up being something subtle somewhere in my map
> file or php/mapscript code.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Dan
> 
> At 01:53 PM 1/22/2003 -0500, TCHaddad wrote:
> >Dan
> >
> >I think your layer definition is missing LABELITEM ... so mapserver
> >does not know what labels to draw.
> >
> >TH
> >
> >----------------
> >
> >Message: 12
> >Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 12:07:56 -0800
> >To:  mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> >From: Dan Barron
> >Subject: RE: [Mapserver-users] How to Draw Annotation Layer Last
> >
> >--=====================_7244625==.ALT
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed
> >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> >
> >Thanks Ed & Chip,
> >
> >I tried to set the layer to type point and the problem persists.
> >
> >When I try to use the 'drawLabelCache()' method I get the following
> >error=20 at the line of the php/mapscript file making the method call
> >-
> >
> >Fatal error: MapServer Error in msGetBitmapFont(): Invalid bitmap
> >font. Must be one of tiny, small, medium, large or giant.
> >
> >Currently I have the annotation layer as the last layer entry in the
> >map=20 file - and it is still being drawn over by the other layers. 
> >Could it be=20 how I am defining my other layers?  Here is an
> >example:
> >
> >LAYER
> >    NAME 'states'
> >    TYPE POLYGON
> >    STATUS ON
> >    DATA 'north_america/usa/statesp020'
> >    MAXSCALE 26000000
> >    MINSCALE 1
> >    GROUP 'north_america'
> >    CLASS
> >      NAME 'states'
> >      OUTLINECOLOR 204 204 204
> >      COLOR 255 255 204
> >      LABEL
> >       COLOR 0 0 0
> >          SIZE SMALL
> >      END
> >    END
> >END
> >
> >
> >Am I possibly running into a v3.5 issue?
> >
> >Dan
> >
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