[Mapserver-users] strange behaviour of LABELANGLEITEM

[Lowell Filak]

I believe it is most likely a GD/FreeType-mismatch issue.
You should be able to find something on the resolution in the archives.
HTH
Lowell F.

The following message was sent by =?iso-8859-15?q?Bj=F6rn=20Platzen?= <bplatzen at sosnetz.de> on Tue, 3 Jun 2003 15:57:39 +0200.

> Hi List,
> 
> I have point-layers for the labeling of the streets, where the dbf-file 
> provides the information about the angle of the lable (in degrees).
> It seems, as if every letter is turned instead of the whole label.
> 
> In my Mapfile it looks like this:
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME strassennamen1
>   TYPE annotation
>   STATUS on
>   MAXSCALE 7500
>   MINSCALE 3400
>   DATA NebenStrassennamen_text
>   LABELITEM "Strname"
>   LABELANGLEITEM "Text_angle" 
>     CLASS
>       LABEL
>         ANTIALIAS true
>         PARTIALS FALSE
>         POSITION cc
>         TYPE TRUETYPE
>         SIZE 8
>         FONT swiss
>         COLOR 0 0 0
>       END #LABEL
>     END #CLASS
> END #LAYER
> 
> The output can be found under http://www.ividata.de/map_aachen.gif
> A Version with non-turned labels is under 
> http://www.ividata.de/map_aachen2.gif (just to see the labels text...)
> 
> The degree-information looks like 
> 35.000000
> 297.000000
> 18.000000
> 309.000000
> 58.000000
> .
> .
> .
> 
> The shapes and dbf's were generated by MapInfo.
> 
> I hope, that anybody can tell me, what's wrong...
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Bjoern
> 
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