[mapserver-users] About font sizes

[Paul Ramsey]

You have to both compile Mapserver with AGG support and ensure that
your outputformat is using the AGG driver to get AGG rendering. If
you're not doing both those, you're getting GD rendering, which is the
(faster/less attractive) default.

P

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:23 PM, GMail <cheung.jackey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> The attached image is generated with the following:
>
> LABEL
>        PRIORITY        5
>        ENCODING        "UTF-8"
>        COLOR           32 32 32
>        OUTLINECOLOR    255 255 255
>        TYPE            TRUETYPE
>        FONT            "arial"
>        SIZE            7
>        BUFFER          2
>        POSITION        AUTO
>        PARTIALS        FALSE
>        MINFEATURESIZE  25
>        WRAP            " "
>        MAXLENGTH       8
>        ALIGN           CENTER
> END
>
>
> The most obvious issue is the character "t" and "o", which are stuck
> together. Actually, the "Ria" part of the word are closer together, and the
> "l" seems a bit separated from parts.
>
> I've checked that the AGG engine can render text with sub-pixel precision,
> and can render down to 6px font size clearly. Just curious, how mapserver
> does the text rendering?
>
> I'm not sure which part of the above label object goes wrong. Any light?
>
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