[mapserver-users] agg support and accents umlauts

[Knut Behrends]

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This is my final post on this subject, just to end this topic on a
positive note.
Although the font management tools on solaris 10 release 08/07 always
dump core after a few keystrokes and button clicks, Solaris' truetype
fonts themselves are okay. On the machine can alternatively be
determined with a unix "find /usr -name "*.ttf"  command. Add a few
other perl one-liners to create a fontlist file which can be used with
the mapserver FONTSET directive.

Arial-Bold	   /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/Arial-Bold.ttf
Arial-Italic	   /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/Arial-Italic.ttf
Arial	   /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/Arial.ttf
....

When truetype fonts are used (instead of agg's built-in raster fonts) in
the layers/mapfiles, then the agg renderer works properly.

Knut

Just to end this on a positive
> Support for Truetype fonts on my Solaris "box" seems to be shaky:
> 
> What I get is similar to this bug report (reported by someone else):
> 
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6633698
> 
> sdtfontadm, sdtfontadd, sdtfontls crash on Solaris 10 08/07 Sparc and
> X86 (and some on U3 sparc):
> 
>  /usr/dt/bin/sdtfontls /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType
> 
> Segmentation Fault(coredump)
> 
> Work Around
> N/A
> 
> I don't have the time to investigate this myself.
> 
> Maybe I can get it done with a minimal fontset file created manually.
> 
> 
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