[Mapserver-users] TrueType Symbols

[Prashant]

Hi Again,

Please ignore my message. I was able to resolve the problem. I traced the
parsing code and found that truetype symbols are required to be in a
separate symbolset file.

Regards,

Prashant
----- Original Message -----
From: "Prashant Desai" <prashant.desai at maptext.com>
To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 1:54 PM
Subject: [Mapserver-users] TrueType Symbols


> Hi,
>
> Is there a known problem in using TrueType symbols in MapServer version
> 3.6.4?
> The symbol definition in my mapfile  is given below. I tried to debug and
> found that it is successfully able to recognize type ELLIPSE and VECTOR,
but
> when it comes to TRUETYPE, it stores 0 in the symbol->type
> Any help on this will be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
>  SYMBOL
>    NAME "circle"
>    TYPE ELLIPSE
>    POINTS 1 1 END
>    FILLED TRUE
>  END
>  SYMBOL
>    NAME "triangle"
>    TYPE vector
>    POINTS
>      0 2
>      1 0
>      2 2
>      0 2
>    END
>  END
>  SYMBOL
>    NAME "s1"
>    TYPE TRUETYPE
>    FONT arial
>    FILLED true
>    ANTIALIAS true
>    CHARACTER "A"
>  END
>
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