problem with annotation display {Scanned}

[Siki Zoltan]

Hi,

The name of a column cant be so long and space is not alowed in the column
name in dBase file. So your LABELITEM must be false, give the name of the
column (max 11 chars). CLASSITEM is not neccessary if you have a single
class for the annotation layer.

Bye
Zoltán

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, K. Lessing wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> it looks like that I have a problem with my font file - I´m not sure.
> I am running MS 4.2.2 on SUSE9.1 with Apache2.
> MS is running with freetype Support
> Fr labeling some Vectorlayer I downloaded the whole 4.0 tutorial from:
> http://terrasip.gis.umn.edu/projects/tutorial/
> and installed all font files and the font.list file under:
> /srv/www/htdocs/fonts/
>
> The sourcecode of the Mapfile:
>
> MAP
>   NAME SoSo
>   SHAPEPATH "../daten"
>   EXTENT 22 -33 30.5 -34
>   STATUS ON
>   SIZE 670 670
>   UNITS kilometers
>   FONTSET "/srv/www/htdocs/fonts/fonts.list"
>
>  WEB
>   TEMPLATE "../docs/erstes_template.html"
>   IMAGEPATH "/srv/www/htdocs/tmp/"
>   IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
>   MAXSCALE 800000
>   MINSCALE 10000
>  END
>
>  LAYER
>     NAME "vegetation"
>     DATA "vege"
>     STATUS DEFAULT
>     TYPE polygon
>     CLASSITEM "VELD"
>
>     CLASS
>       EXPRESSION "Afromontane Forest"
>       COLOR 250 45 67
>     END
>     CLASS
>       EXPRESSION "Dry Sandy Highveld Grassland"
>       COLOR 25 250 67
>     END
>     CLASS
>       EXPRESSION "Afro Mountain Grassland"
>       COLOR 0 230 30
>     END
>
> # .... (25 more Classes are following ...)
>
>  END
>
>   LAYER
>     NAME "beschriftungen"
>     STATUS DEFAULT
>     FORCE TRUE
>     TYPE ANNOTATION
>     DATA "vege"
>     CLASSITEM "VELD"
>     LABELITEM "Afromontane Forest"
>     CLASS
>       LABEL
>         TYPE TRUETYPE
>         FONT "times"
>         SIZE 20
>         COLOR 10 10 10
>         OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
>       END
>     END
>   END
>
> END
>
> The result is following message:
> msDBFGetItemIndex(): DBASE file error. Item 'Afromontane Forest' not found.
>
> The funny thing is: Without the ANNOTATION Layer everything works fine -
> then all Layers are visible ...
> (what might mean that the .dbf file can be read therefore - isn`t it?)
>
> I already:
> - chanced in the .dbf file each entry in each each cell up to a max.
> length of ten characters
> - renamed the file name to fonts.txt
> - switched of MAX- and MINSCALE and UNITS off
> - and fiddled around a lot with the quotation marks and upper and lower
> case ...
> ..nothing helped so far :(
> Does have anybody an an advice for me?
>
> Karsten
>