[Mapserver-users] HELP ON ANGLE LABELS

[Daniel Morissette]

Label rotation works only with Truetype fonts.  Your label object is 
currently set to use TYPE BITMAP.

Daniel


Marcelo Carrillo wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>  
> I'm trying to put angleled labels on a map of Quito's streets, i'm using 
> a shape file, and the angles are in degrees in the .dbf file.
>  
> I think that maybe my layer is wrong, here is it:
>  
>  LAYER
>     NAME "CALLES"
>     GROUP "Ciudad"
>     STATUS ON
>     DATA "CALLES_84_3_text"
>      TYPE ANNOTATION
>  MINSCALE 1000
>     MAXSCALE 100000
>     LABELITEM Textstring
>  LABELANGLEITEM Text_angle
>  LABELSIZEITEM Text_size
>     TOLERANCE 10
>     TOLERANCEUNITS PIXELS
>     CLASS
>  NAME 'CALLES'
>       LABEL
>         TYPE BITMAP
>   ANGLE AUTO
>   POSITION LR
>   SIZE TINY
>         COLOR 10 155 95
>       END
>       STYLE
>         SYMBOL "CIRCLE"
>     SIZE 5
>      COLOR 255 100 51
>       END
>     END
>   END
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> 		
>