[Mapserver-users] Rotating text problem relating to OGR and D gn File

[Lee, Han]

Frank,

I ran the ogrinfo and got the following output:

...

OGRFeature(elements):7597
  Type (Integer) = 17
  Level (Integer) = 18
  GraphicGroup (Integer) = 0
  ColorIndex (Integer) = 118
  Weight (Integer) = 2
  Style (Integer) = 0
  EntityNum (Integer) = (null)
  MSLink (Integer) = (null)
  Text (String) = CENTRE COMMERCIALE
  Style = LABEL(t:"CENTRE COMMERCIALE",c:#8f2300,s:12g,a:277)
  POINT (1121698.730 1119231.755)

OGRFeature(elements):7598
  Type (Integer) = 17
  Level (Integer) = 18
  GraphicGroup (Integer) = 0
  ColorIndex (Integer) = 118
  Weight (Integer) = 2
  Style (Integer) = 0
  EntityNum (Integer) = (null)
  MSLink (Integer) = (null)
  Text (String) = GRAND PLACE DES BOIS FRANC
  Style = LABEL(t:"GRAND PLACE DES BOIS FRANC",c:#8f2300,s:12g,a:277)
  POINT (1121678.536 1119229.434)

...

It looks like the rotation angles are coming through.
I am currently running Mapserver version 4.0.1.
Here is my version information:

C:\Inetpub\Scripts>mapserv -v
MapServer version 4.0.1 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP
OUTPUT=PDF
 OUTPUT=SWF SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER
SUPPORTS=WMS_CLI
ENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=POSTGIS
INPUT=OGR
INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE

Do I need to install something to use FreeType2 support?

Thank you for your help.

Han
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:warmerdam at pobox.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 1:55 PM
To: Lee, Han
Cc: 'mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu'
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Rotating text problem relating to OGR and
Dgn File


Lee, Han wrote:
> I am trying to display text from DGN file using OGR.
> I am able to display the text but the text is not rotated.
...
> 
> I tried many different formats (ArcInfo coverage, mif, tab files) to
rotate
> the text,
> but that didn't work.
> I thought that STYLEITEM "AUTO" should use the angel value to rotate the
> text.
> 
> Any ideas?

Han,

First, I believe you need to use FreeType2 support with outline fonts.
I can't remember the details of this (been a while) but the default font
mechanism in MapServer doesn't support rotation.

However, it is more likely that the angle is just not being carried through
in the autostyling.  I would encourage you to use ogrinfo to dump the
features
in the layer in question and look at the style strings to see if the
rotation
angles are coming through.  If not, then the problem is at my end and you
could
file a bug in the GDAL/OGR Bugzilla.

Best regards,
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