label angle AUTO - M.S. 4.4.

[Rob P.]

>>>>> "Piero" == Piero Cavalieri <piero.cavalieri at HEIDI.IT> writes:

    Piero> I'm trying to use the AUTO orientation of label in this
    Piero> .map file fragment: LAYER NAME fiumi DEBUG on METADATA
    Piero> "DESCRIPTION" "Fiumi" END TYPE line STATUS ON DATA idrfiu
    Piero> LABELITEM "des" LABELMAXSCALE 100000 CLASSITEM "asta" CLASS
    Piero> EXPRESSION "0000" NAME "Fiumi/Aste Principali" COLOR 0 0
    Piero> 250 TEMPLATE "ttt_query.html" LABEL MINFEATURESIZE 30
    Piero> MINDISTANCE 150 POSITION CC SIZE MEDIUM ANGLE AUTO COLOR 0
    Piero> 0 100 OUTLINECOLOR 220 220 220 END END CLASS EXPRESSION
    Piero> /F|C|./ NAME "Fiumi/Fosse o Canali" MAXSCALE 40000 COLOR 0
    Piero> 0 250 TEMPLATE "ttt_query.html" LABEL MINFEATURESIZE 30
    Piero> MINDISTANCE 150 POSITION CC ANGLE AUTO SIZE SMALL COLOR 0 0
    Piero> 100 OUTLINECOLOR 220 220 220 END END TOLERANCE 5 END

    Piero> but it has no effect. My labels are still orrizontal.  If I
    Piero> use a background color for labels, then only the background
    Piero> is rotated.  What's wrong in my .map ?

I think you need to add:
TYPE truetype
in the label block.  Also, you need to specify FONTSET in the MAP
block.

Rob