Font error

Murat BEYHAN beyhan at DEPREM.GOV.TR
Tue Sep 26 23:22:05 PDT 2006


Dear David,
I have add the fontset line at the begining of the map file 
as follows
FONTSET "/var/www/html/map/fonts/fonts.list"

Then I have tried to write arial bold.Then I have succeeded.
Thnak you very much.
I have forgotten to set font...
Regards... 


MURAT


On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:33:53 -0500, Fawcett, David wrote
> Murat,
> 
> In the Map block of your Map File, do you have a FONTSET line that 
> contains the correct path to your fonts.list file.
> 
> In that file, is there an entry for 'arial'?
> 
> Is there a corresponding arial.ttf file for that entry?
> 
> Are the permissions correct for the directory in which the font.list 
> and fonts are in?
> 
> If you are on a unix or linux system, do the cases of the characters 
> in the names and paths of the fonts match?
> 
> David.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List on behalf of Murat BEYHAN
> Sent: Tue 9/26/2006 7:42 AM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Font error
> 
> Hi frieds;
> I would like to try the copyright text on my map by using following  
>  LAYER  NAME copyright  STATUS DEFAULT  TYPE annotation  TRANSFORM false
>   FEATURE
>     POINTS
>       260 450 #this is the position of the text in image coordinates 
> (pixels)    END    TEXT "© xyz company 2006" #this is your 
> displaying text  END     CLASS    LABEL #defines the font, colors 
> etc. of the text      FONT arial      TYPE truetype      SIZE 8      
> BUFFER 1      COLOR 255 0 0      BACKGROUNDCOLOR 255 255 255     
>  FORCE TRUE    END  END END
> 
> then I have got this error message. I was configured Mapserver with freetype
> but Why I have faced this error and how can I solve.
> Regards...
> 
> msGetLabelSize(): TrueType Font error. Requested font (arial) not 
> found.
> 
> [murat at sakura ~]$ mapserv -v
> MapServer version 4.8.4 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP
> OUTPUT=PDF OUTPUT=SVG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER
> SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=THREADS INPUT=TIFF
> INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE DEBUG=MSDEBUG
> [murat at sakura ~]$
> 
> Murat
> 
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