Label angle on roads

[Stephen Woodbridge]

You need to specify truetype not bitmap fonts in your LABEL ... END 
block to get rotatable fonts and labels.

-Steve W.

Matthew Edmondson wrote:
> I'm currently working on a mapserver\chameleon application, I've seen
> a couple of posts on this mailing list in which people used the label
> value of "angle auto" to force the angle of the label to match a line.
> 
> Adding the angle, auto to my label doesn't seem to make any difference
> at all in my map's appearance. All road labels are still completely
> horizontal.
> 
> I would really like for the angle of the label to match the angle of
> that section of road. Any help in this matter would be greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt
>