Mapserver on WinXP - known problems?

[Reuven Levitt]

Thanks for the tip.

The text is still not showing up, but the server is
not crashing any more.  Do you have a sample flash map
file that uses text labels?

Thanks,
Reuven.


--- Yewondwossen Assefa <assefa at DMSOLUTIONS.CA> wrote:

> The flash output does not support True type fonts.
> It uses fonts called
> "FDB". The reason is that the underlying library
> (ming) only supports
> those fonts. You can download some FDB fonts at the
> ming web site
> http://ming.sourceforge.net/.
>
> Reuven Levitt wrote:
>
> > Hey Robert,
> >
> > I am quite new, but I am running Mapserver on XP
> so
> > far with no problems at all.  TrueType font works
> > fine, however I am running into a problem using
> the
> > Flash (SWF) output with Multiple layers on text
> > output.  I dont know if this is an XP specific
> problem
> > or one specific to my setup.
> >
> > Reuven.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Robert <robert-fritz at WEB.DE> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>hello,
> >>
> >>does anybody have trouble to run mapserver on
> >>WindowsXP? i know, that there
> >>is a problem using truetype fonts
> >>for labeling and XP, but are there other known
> >>restrictions / problems?
> >>Are there differences between XP-versions (XPPro,
> XP
> >>TabletEdition, ...?)
> >>
> >>Thank you for your help,
> >>robert
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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