[Mapserver-users] can't display truetype fonts

[Dylan Keon]

Double check that you have the correct FONTSET in your mapfile.  You 
might try giving FONTSET an absolute path, if you haven't already (e.g., 
on my Linux box, FONTSET /www/fonts/fonts.txt).  I've found that I also 
need to use absolute paths within my fonts.txt file (e.g., arial 
/www/fonts/TrueType/arial.ttf).

--Dylan


kgrootendorst at baird.com wrote:
> 
> I'm having trouble with using true type fonts in my mapserver 
> application.  Basically, if I specify a label as truetype, I receive the 
> following message:   "msGetLabelSize(): TrueType Font error. Could not 
> find/open font ."
> If I specify a label as bitmap, it displays correctly.
> My paths are correct and no problems were noticed during installation.
> I'm not sure why this is happening - should I have some type of 
> 'truetype.dll' somewhere?
> 
> I'm running the following:
> Windows 2000
> Mapserver 4.2
> php mapscript 4.3.4
> Apache 2.0
> 
> *MapScript*
> *MapServer Version * 	MapServer version 4.2.0 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG 
> OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP OUTPUT=PDF OUTPUT=SWF SUPPORTS=PROJ 
> SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT 
> SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR 
> INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE
> *PHP MapScript Version * 	($Revision: 1.194.2.3 $ $Date: 2004/05/13 
> 21:37:44 $)
> 
> 
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
> Kevin