Unusual Fonts (resend, image too big)

[Ed McNierney]

Neil -

Well, actually, the 1000 words would really be much more helpful.  Most of the "SpeciesLabel" fields in that image are apparently blank, which might mean they're blank or it might mean that ArcView is simply choosing a different way of displaying equally unprintable characters, or it might mean something else.  A blank picture doesn't say much <g>.

It would be helpful if you could try to answer the three questions I originally asked, and specifically pick out one entry with a SpeciesLabel that has printable text in ArcView.  Thanks.

	- 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

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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