[Mapserver-users] Streets text labels: automatic text orientation?

[Randy James]

Hi

You may need to define the full path to your font list

Cheers
Randy
--- Pedro Salazar <pedro-b-salazar at ptinovacao.pt> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I follow your indications and I'm getting this error:
> 
> msGetLabelSize(): TrueType Font error. Could not
> find/open font
> 
> I'm using mapserver on linux with support for TTF.I
> downloaded a exe
> with fonts which I extracted with the tool 'cabextract'.
> 
> I have the following lines on my map configuration:
> 
> FONTSET "fonts/fonts.list"
> ...
> LAYER
> NAME vias_text
> LABELITEM "NOME"
> CLASSITEM "CATEGORIA"
> TYPE LINE
> DATA vias
> LABELCACHE ON
> STATUS DEFAULT
>     CLASS
>         OUTLINECOLOR 128 128 128
>         COLOR 0 0 0
>         LABEL
>             COLOR 0 0 0
>             POSITION AUTO
>             ANGLE AUTO
>             ANTIALIAS TRUE
>             PARTIALS TRUE
>             MINDISTANCE 100
>             MINFEATURESIZE AUTO
>             TYPE TRUETYPE
>             FONT "arial"
>             MINSIZE 8
>             MAXSIZE 12
>             POSITION cc
> 
>         END
>     END
> END
> 
> I have my fonts on that directory ("fonts/fonts.list")
> and my fonts.list
> is:
> arial           Arial.TTF
> arialbd         Arialbd.TTF
> arialbi         Arialbi.TTF
> ariali          Ariali.TTF
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> thanks,
> Pedro.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 17:28, m.spring at gmx.de wrote:
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> > Pedro,
> > 
> > you have to use a Truetype font for rendering with
> LABELANGLE AUTO,
> > basis for this is a mapserver compiled with freetype
> support. Check
> > this on the commandline with 'mapserv -v', this should
> say
> > 
> > SUPPORTS=TTF
> > 
> > Then, instead of 
> > 
> > SIZE TINY
> > 
> > use
> > 
> >   TYPE TRUETYPE
> >   FONT "arial"
> >   MINSIZE 8
> >   MAXSIZE 12
> >   POSITION cc
> > 
> > and don't forget to have "arial" defined in your
> FONTSET.
> > 
> > Markus
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> -- 
> PS
> pedro-b-salazar at ptinovacao.pt
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