[Mapserver-users] strange behaviour of LABELANGLEITEM

[Randy James]

Hi

If each letter is an seperate point than you get the
results you have. If you want to turn the whole string than
 you should have the whole string as a label for a single
point.

Cheers

--- Lowell Filak <lfilak at medinaco.org> wrote:
> 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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> > 
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