[mapserver-users] How does SYMBOLSCALEDENOM work on FONTs?

[Jackey Cheung]

I've met a problem while playing around with SYMBOLSCALEDENOM. In
attached images, the string on the top without halo is drawn as fixed
size 10px in arial. The lower string was drawn with scaling on in
verdana. However, as you can see, the scaling seems quite awkward. It
doesn't seem to change from 1:10M ~ 1:1M, and suddenly grown to full
size on 500K.

Did I make something wrong?


LAYER
  NAME              "state"
  STATUS            default
  TYPE              polygon
  #MINSCALEDENOM     10000
  MAXSCALEDENOM     50000000
  SYMBOLSCALEDENOM  500000

  CONNECTIONTYPE    postgis
  CONNECTION        .......
  PROCESSING        "CLOSE_CONNECTION=DEFER"
  DATA              "geom FROM view_render_locality USING UNIQUE oid
USING SRID=4326"

  LABELITEM         "sname"

  CLASS
    NAME            "State/Province"
    LABEL
      ENCODING      "UTF-8"
      COLOR         0 0 0
      OUTLINECOLOR  255 255 255
      TYPE          truetype
      FONT          "verdana"
      SIZE          16
      POSITION      auto
      PARTIALS      false
      MINSIZE       8
      MAXSIZE       16
    END
  END
END
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