[Mapserver-users] Line Label Angle

[Shannon Scott]

Daniel,
That was exactly it.  Problem solved.
Thank you for speaking up, even though I neglected to provide my OS version
in the original post.
Thank You too Krzysztof for you thoughtful help.
Take Care
Shannon


----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Morissette" <morissette at dmsolutions.ca>
To: "Shannon Scott" <sscott at gwi.net>
Cc: <Mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Line Label Angle


> Shannon Scott wrote:
> >
> > I imagined the ANGLE AUTO would give me the results I wanted ( Names
aligned
> > legibly along the street ), but I could not get it to work.
> > I have generated some images and made them available to the web.
> > The first is what I want:
> > http://216.220.241.10/demo1.jpg
> >
> > The second is what I get from MN MapServer:
> > http://216.220.241.10/demo2.png
> >
> > Is there a way to get the result I want?
>
>
> I've run into this as well not long ago on a RedHat 7.2 system.  The
> problem seemed to be between GD 2.0.12 and the freetype2 that comes
> bundled with RedHat.  I came to that conclusion because even the test
> programs that come with GD had the same font angle problem, so this
> confirmed that the problem was not in MapServer.
>
> What I did at the end was remove the freetype2-devel RPM (or whatever it
> was called), and then I downloaded and installed the latest freetype2
> source... and finally reconfigured and recompiled GD2.0.12 and MapServer
> and things worked great.
>
> Daniel
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