[mapserver-users] Problems with agg and character definition in symbol File

[Michael Pfeiffer]

Hi Thomas,

thanks for your answer.
I've opened a bug for this. 
It's bug #3203

Greets 

Michael

Thomas Bonfort-2 wrote:
> 
> please open a bug for this and assign it to me (tbonfort). I'll try to
> get the fix in for the 5.6 release.
> 
> regards,
> 
> thomas
> 
> www.camptocamp.com
> +33 5 16 57 01 02
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 08:54, Michael Pfeiffer
> <Michael.Pfeiffer at bd.so.ch> wrote:
>>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I have a problem with our True Type Font symbols.
>> Is it possible that defining the character with the character number (eg
>> &#104;) in the SYMBOL-definition doesn't work anymore with MS5, agg and
>> Polygon Layer?
>>
>> When defining the symbol like this:
>>
>> SYMBOL
>>
>>        NAME "fels"
>>
>>        TYPE TRUETYPE
>>
>>        FONT av93
>>
>>        Filled true
>>
>>        ANTIALIAS TRUE
>>
>>        CHARACTER "&#104;"
>>
>> END
>>
>> I get a &-Symbol in my polygons.
>>
>> When defining the symbol like this
>>
>> SYMBOL
>>
>>        NAME "fels"
>>
>>        TYPE TRUETYPE
>>
>>        FONT av93
>>
>>        Filled true
>>
>>        ANTIALIAS TRUE
>>
>>        CHARACTER "h"
>>
>> END
>>
>> it works.
>> For point symbols the definition with &#104 is also working. But not for
>> polygon symbols.
>> When using png as outputformat I also get a correct map.
>>
>> This is the outputformat definition in the mapfile:
>>
>> OUTPUTFORMAT
>>
>>  NAME 'AGG'
>>
>>  DRIVER AGG/PNG
>>
>>  IMAGEMODE RGB
>>
>>  MIMETYPE "image/png"
>>
>>  TRANSPARENT OFF
>>
>> END
>>
>> We have numerous of these symbols and it would be a lot of work to change
>> them all.
>> Is this a bug or am I doing sth wrong? I didn't find anything about this
>> theme in the list.
>> Mapserver Version is 5.4.1
>>
>> Thx for your answers.
>>
>> Michael
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