[Mapserver-users] TrueType fonts problem -- help needed

[Frieso ter Haseborg]

Hi,
 
try to use an absolute path in your "fonts.list".
 
HTH,
 
Frieso ter Haseborg
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-----Original Message-----
From: Murat Isik [mailto:muratisik at megatek.com.tr]
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 10:27 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: [Mapserver-users] TrueType fonts problem -- help needed


Hello,
I am having a problem with TrueType fonts. This is the error I get:
 
msGetLabelSize(): TrueType Font error. Could not find/open font 
 
And this is what I do to get this error:
 
I have these in my mapfile:
 
NAME ERENKOY
STATUS ON
SIZE 600 600
SHAPEPATH "data"
IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
FONTSET font.list
 
and
 
LAYER
  NAME ERENKOY_ORNEKSOKAK_PL_polyline
  TYPE LINE
  GROUP sokaklar
  STATUS ON
  DATA ERENKOY_ORNEKSOKAK_PL_polyline
  LABELITEM "ADI"
  CLASS
    NAME "ADI"
    COLOR 161 02 110
    LABEL
      TYPE truetype
      FORCE true
      FONT arial
      COLOR 0 0 0
      BACKGROUNDCOLOR 250 250 250 
      POSITION cc
      SIZE 8
    END
  END
END

 
This ERENKOY_ORNEKSOKAK_PL_polyline layer's dbf file includes two
coloumns, ID and ADI (name). This is a street layer and I am trying to
get the name of the streets written next to their lines.
 
font.list include:
 
arial                           arial.ttf
arial-bold                      arialbd.ttf
arial-italic                    ariali.ttf
arial-bold-italic               arialbi.ttf
 
I have all the related ttf files in the same directory as font.list
text, mapfile and the html page calling these fonts. However I get the
error. May it be that my mapserver is not truetype compiled? I must
admit that I installed mapserver and mapscript through rpms so I dont
know the trutype situation of my mapserver 3.6. If I can get this
labelling to work then I am going to use th same mapfile for a mapscript
page.
 
Have a nice day.
 
Murat Isik