Unusual Fonts (resend, image too big)

[Neil Fincham]

Hi Ed,

	Thanks for the quick reply, a picture says 1000 words so I have done a
screen dump out of ArcVIEW for you.

	I have tried a few different fonts and a few different string fields
from the SDE and get the same result with the string's, the integers and
<Null>'s render fine and using a shape file exported directly out of the
SDE also works fine.

Very puzzling

Neil

Ed McNierney wrote:
> Neil -
> 
> Could you give an example of the text in one of the SpeciesLabel fields?  What alphabet, character set, and language is the SpeciesLabel field stored in?  If you switch to a different FONT does the output change?
> 
> At first glance you appear to have code points in the label that are not representable in the selected font.  That might not be the problem, but it's worth eliminating - hence my questions above.
> 
> 	- Ed
> 
> Ed McNierney
> Chief Mapmaker
> Demand Media / TopoZone.com
> 73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
> North Chelmsford, MA  01863
> Phone: 978-251-4242, Fax: 978-251-1396
> ed at topozone.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Neil Fincham
> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 3:37 PM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Unusual Fonts
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> 	I am really enjoying my first delve into mapping and like to say thanks for the great software.
> 
> 	I am havering a bit of a problem and I am sure it is something easy, I am getting unusual fonts rendering using SDE.  It works fine with the shape files but with SDE the text parts come out wrong.  I have attached a sample.
> 
> Here are some bits from my mapfile;-
> 
> OUTPUTFORMAT
>  NAME 'AGG'
>  DRIVER AGG/PNG
>  IMAGEMODE RGB
> END
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME LandUnit
>   METADATA
>     "DESCRIPTION"   "Land Unit"
>     "RESULT_FIELDS" "ForestCode Description"
>   END
>   TYPE POLYGON
>   STATUS ON
>   CONNECTIONTYPE PLUGIN
>   PLUGIN "/ms4w/Apache/specialplugins/msplugin_sde_92.dll"
>   CONNECTION "palustris,port:5155,d,ms_user,p4ss\/\/ord"
>   DATA "d.DBO.LandUnit,SHAPE,SDE.DEFAULT"
>   TOLERANCE 5
>   TEMPLATE "ttt_query.html"
>   CLASS
>     SYMBOL 0
>     COLOR 255 255 255
>     OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>     TEXT ([SpeciesLabel] [YOE] [AreaHA]ha)
>     LABEL
>       FONT "vera"
>       TYPE truetype
>       SIZE 8
>       BUFFER 1
>       COLOR 0 0 0
>       BACKGROUNDCOLOR 255 255 255
>       WRAP " "
>       ENCODING UTF-16
>     END
>   END
> END # Layer
> 
> 	The [SpeciesLabel] is the one with the problem, the "[YOE] [AreaHA]ha"
> are numbers and render correctly.  I have tried various ENCODING types to no avail.
> 
> Thanks for your time
> 
> Neil
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