rotating symbols

[Francesco Sozzi]

Hi Flavio,

Thank you for answer and suggestion.

This is a good workaround in case of using fonts symbols.

In my case I have customers that prepared vectorial symbols and they would 
like to rotate them. The reason why they choosed vectorial symbols is 
because rendering of complex symbols is slightly better with vectorial 
definition instead of fonts.

Best regards

Francesco

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Flavio Hendry" <flavio at tydac.ch>
To: "Francesco Sozzi" <fsozzi at INTERCAD.CH>; <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] rotating symbols


> Hi Francesco
>
> you cannot, however you can do a way around using labels ... Here is a
> map file extract, where I have a column with the angle and a column
> with the text (the letter corresponding to the symbol in my true type
> font ...):
>
> LAYER
> NAME "Wasserleitung - Punkte, Erweiterungen"
> TYPE ANNOTATION
> MINSCALE 0
> MAXSCALE 2000
> STATUS ON
> CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
> CONNECTION "Werke/Wasser405/405_WA_Punkt_Erw_Text.TAB"
> LABELITEM "OGR:LabelText"
> LABELANGLEITEM "OGR:LabelAngle"
> SIZEUNITS feet
> HEADER "Art Lagebestimmung"
> TOLERANCEUNITS feet
> TOLERANCE 3
> CLASS
> COLOR -1 -1 -1
> TEMPLATE "ttt.htm"
> LABEL
> ANTIALIAS TRUE
> TYPE TRUETYPE
> FONT NEAPOLJS
> SIZE 3
> POSITION cc
> COLOR 0 0 255
> FORCE true
> END
> END
> PROJECTION
> "init=world:CH1903"
> END
> END
>
> Mit freundlichem Gruss / Best Regards
> Flavio Hendry
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francesco Sozzi <fsozzi at INTERCAD.CH>
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 12:22:04 +0100
> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] rotating symbols
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> has anybody some news about adding support (in map files) for
>> rotating symbols?...
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Francesco Sozzi
>
>
>