Using truetype fonts (Linux)

[Stephen Davies]

OOPS! I spoke too soon.

The error messages went away but I hadn't checked the results properly.

The symbol definition that I am building looks like this:

SYMBOL
        NAME "fence"
        TYPE TRUETYPE
        FONT "arial"
        CHARACTER "&#47"
        ANTIALIAS TRUE
        GAP 15
END

What I see when I try to draw a "fence" is not the "/" character but the 
string "&#47".

The character number used is irrelevant; whatever number I put in the 
symbol file is displayed as a string rather than as a character.

Stephen

>Thanks Steve. Problem solved.

>Cheers,
>Stephen

On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 12:44 pm, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Stephen,
> 
> The file format is lines like:
> 
> <font_name>  </path/to/font/file>
> arial       /usr/share/fonts/truetype/arial.ttf
> arial-bold  /usr/share/fonts/truetype/arial-bold.ttf
> 
> I think blank lines are ignored and maybe lines starting with '#', but 
> not sure on these.
> 
> <font_name> it the name you refer to in your mapfile
> </path/to/font/file> is the actual path to the font file you want to 
use
> 
> -Steve W.
> 
> Stephen Davies wrote:
> > G'day.
> > 
> > I see references in postings and doco to fonts.list as what looks 
like a  
> > mechanism for telling mapserver where to find truetype fonts but I 
> > cannot find anything to tell me the format of this file.
> > 
> > The recent paper on cartographic symbols refers to "the ALIAS name 
of 
> > the font file to the parameter FONT as defined in the file 
fonts.list".
> > What does this mean?
> > 
> > I have a pretty full set of truetype fonts installed and use them 
> > successfully with other software but have no file called fonts.list 
> > anywhere on the system.
> > 
> > Is this maybe a windows-specific thing?
> > If so, how does one use truetype fonts with mapserver under Linux?
> > 
> > Cheers and thanks,
> > Stephen
> > 
> 
> 

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