[Mapserver-users] Error when using labels TYPE=truetype

Björn Platzen bplatzen at sosnetz.de
Fri May 2 11:32:24 EDT 2003


Hi Thorsten,

> This can happen for several reasons. The most common one for me is
> that your GD library was not linked against the same version of
> FreeType as your mapserver binary. Since your are using SuSE, it's
> quite likely that you have more than one version installed. Use the
> 'ldd' command to find out about the libraries your programs are
> linked against.

Thanks! I compiled with a patched gd-2.0.7 while on my system there was 
I think gd-1.8.x without GIF-support...
I'll check this ... and hope that I get it working ...

> chmod 755 is a bit too much btw, that makes your font files
> executable
>
> :) 644 should do fine.
755 was the "last try"...


Thanks & bye,

Bjoern.

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