no legendgraphic for class with (colored) TEXT as a symbol

Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) bartvde at XS4ALL.NL
Thu Jan 5 10:01:06 PST 2006


Huub,

I don't think text is used for legends.

How about defining a TRUETYPE symbol with the same font (arial_bold) and 
specifying the character (B) you want? That should work.

Best regards,
Bart

Huub Fleuren wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I have a points layer that will show as big 14 point orange arial_bold 
> B's if its PROJECTSOORT = 200
>
> This goes allright
>
> The problem is that the legendgraphic request doesn't show this B, nor 
> its color, nothing in fact.
>
> If I insert a SYMBOL (e.g. a big point) the legendgraphic gives me the 
> symbol but the point will cover the B when showing the layer
>
> Could it be that the LABEL keyword interferes with the instruction for 
> the label in the legend
>
> CLASS
>   TEXT "B"
>   EXPRESSION ([PROJECTSOORT] = 200)
>   NAME "Bouwlocatie"
>   LABEL
>     SIZE 14
>     POSITION CC
>     COLOR 255 100 0
>     TYPE TRUETYPE
>     FONT arial_bold
>     ANTIALIAS false
>     BUFFER 0
>     FORCE true
>   END
> END
>
> Huub
>
>


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Bart van den Eijnden
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