Using truetype fonts (Linux)

[Stephen Davies]

Thanks Armin.

The "Construction of Cartographic Symbols" document p10 does not include 
the semicolon - that was my guide.

It does work to simply specify CHARACTER "/".

Another win to MapServer;-)

Cheers and thanks,
Stephen

On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 09:52 pm, Armin Burger wrote:
> Stephen,
> 
> you're missing the semicolon. Try to use
> 
>    CHARACTER "/"
> 
> Normally it should also work to specify
> 
>    CHARACTER "/"
> 
> Armin
> 
> 
> Stephen Davies wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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