[mapserver-users] Legend / GetLegendgraphic with truetype symbols

[Tamas Szekeres]

Michael,

As far as I can see your issue is not related to my original problem,
but I`ll make some tests in the weekend to see what`s going on behind
the scenes.

Best regards,

Tamas


2008/6/20 Michael Schulz <mschulz at webgis.de>:
> Hi Tamas,
>
> thanks for your answer.
>
> I don't have the mapfile at hand, but it breaks down to symbol for a
> point defined as a truetype character, but the layer has sizeunits
> meters defined. So, the only problem is (that's why i tend not to call
> it a bug) that the legend symbol should not take the sizeunits meters
> into account, because it actually does't make sense for the legend...
> In the described case the legend would be perfect if it just could
> take the symbol character and size appropriate for the legend key
> size.
>
> Cheers, Michael
>
> 2008/6/20 Tamas Szekeres <szekerest at gmail.com>:
>> Michael,
>>
>> I`m not sure if it is related, but there`s a bug about how the legend
>> image should be rendered for the annotations, but this hasn`t been
>> implemented yet.
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/1523
>> Do you have further expectations how the legend should look like in
>> this case? How your mapfile looks like?
>> I`m tending to take over this bug and implement something for 5.2 this week.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tamas
>>
>>
>>
>> 2008/6/19 Michael Schulz <mschulz at webgis.de>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> just experimenting with the new 5.2 beta 2. It works very nice.
>>> Especially problems when using truetype fonts with agg have vanished.
>>> Great!
>>>
>>> One problem, that i observe also in the 5.0 versions and that i need
>>> to solve: when using truetype characters as point symbols and setting
>>> sizeunits to meters and adjusting the size values so that it looks
>>> good on the map, the key images of the legend only show a tiny little
>>> spot, where this symbol gets rendered. It seems to use a default (?)
>>> size value (probably set for sizeunits pixel) to display the legend
>>> symbol, but in meter sizeunits this doesn't make sense. Has anyone
>>> already overcome this problem?
>>>
>>> Cheers, Michael
>>>
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