line labels

[Clint Johnson]

Indeed.  To clarify the "ANGLE auto" in your label is the method of  
drawing the lables according to the line; however it only works with 
TrueType fonts.

Note that if your Mapserver is running on a Unix machine then it may not 
be configured to support TrueType fonts 
(http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/compiling_on_unix/#freetype-support)

Clint

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Clint Johnson
Refractions Research Inc.
Cjohnson at refractions.net



Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Mark,
>
> You have to use
>
>    TYPE TRUETYPE
>
> for the font type.
>
> -Steve
>
> Hudson, Mark (xwave) wrote:
>> Hi:
>>
>>  
>>
>> I have a line shapefile consisting of city streets that I am trying 
>> to label based on the attribute of street name.  I can get the labels 
>> to appear but I am wondering how to get them to draw according to the 
>> line angle.  That is, is there a way to get the street name (label) 
>> to draw along side the street (line)?  Just wondering if there is a 
>> way to automatically get the label to draw as same angle of the 
>> street as my streets run at many different angles…..
>>
>>  
>>
>> Code for layer follows:
>>
>>  
>>
>> #layer   ******* Kingston city streets *******
>>
>>       LAYER
>>
>>         NAME "StreetOutlines"
>>
>>         STATUS ON
>>
>>         DATA "Kgn_roads_section"
>>
>>         TYPE LINE
>>
>>         MAXSCALE 750
>>
>>         LABELITEM "road"
>>
>>         LABELCACHE ON
>>
>>         CLASS
>>
>>           NAME "Outlines"
>>
>>           STYLE
>>
>>             COLOR 255 255 255
>>
>>             MINWIDTH 4
>>
>>           END
>>
>>           LABEL
>>
>>             ANGLE auto
>>
>>                 COLOR 0 0 0
>>
>>                 TYPE BITMAP
>>
>>                 POSITION Auto
>>
>>                 PARTIALS FALSE
>>
>>                 MINDISTANCE 100
>>
>>                 MINSIZE 100
>>
>>                 BUFFER 0
>>
>>           END # end of label
>>
>>         END
>>
>>  
>>
>>     END
>>
>>  
>>
>> Any comments would be helpful.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Thanks, Mark Hudson.
>>