[mapserver-users] Text outline not working on line features

[Bistrais, Bob]

Yes, I think I see a white outline about 1 pixel.  Do I have any control over that at all? (width and/or color)

-----Original Message-----
From: thomas bonfort [mailto:thomas.bonfort at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 9:18 PM
To: Bistrais, Bob
Cc: Stephen Woodbridge; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Text outline not working on line features

The GD driver does not support the OUTLINEWIDTH keyword on labels, but
you should see a hard 1-pixel outline be applied to the text.

--
thomas

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 22:56, Bistrais, Bob <Bob.Bistrais at maine.gov> wrote:
> This is an older version of MapServer, MS4W 2.3.1, MapServer 5.2.1.
>
> Using a global file with the outputformat params:
>
>        OUTPUTFORMAT
>                NAME 'agg/png'
>                DRIVER AGG/PNG
>                IMAGEMODE RGBA
>                FORMATOPTION "TRANSPARENT=TRUE"
>        END
>
>        OUTPUTFORMAT
>                NAME 'print'
>                DRIVER "GD/GIF"
>                MIMETYPE "image/gif"
>                IMAGEMODE PC256
>                EXTENSION "gif"
>                TRANSPARENT ON
>        END
>
> -So we're going to gif on the printout.
>
> Not sure what you meant by label output.  But here's what I see- on the
> web application, the labels are as they should be- they have the
> background halo.  On the printed map, the label text itself appears, but
> no background halo.
>
> Yes, I'm absolutely sure that's the code being used in the .map file.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Woodbridge [mailto:woodbri at swoodbridge.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 1:49 PM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Text outline not working on line features
>
> Bob,
>
> Also, what are you getting for label output in you case? More info would
>
> help diagnose this.
>
> Thanks,
> -Steve W
>
> On 9/20/2011 1:47 PM, thomas bonfort wrote:
>> what mapserver version, what outputformat?
>> regardless, it should work with any version, are you sure that this is
>> the actual mapfile snippet that is being used ?
>>
>> --
>> thomas
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 18:45, Bistrais, Bob<Bob.Bistrais at maine.gov>
> wrote:
>>> I'm trying to draw and label road features from a shapefile.  I'd
> like to
>>> include an outline of the road name text as a halo.  This works fine
> on
>>> polygon and point features, but is not working for me with the line
>>> features.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Here is the code block:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>                  LABEL
>>>
>>>                    ANGLE auto
>>>
>>>                    PARTIALS false
>>>
>>>                    FORCE false
>>>
>>>                    MINDISTANCE 250
>>>
>>>                    POSITION uc
>>>
>>>                    COLOR 200 0 0
>>>
>>>                    OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
>>>
>>>                    OUTLINEWIDTH 5
>>>
>>>                    FONT "verdana"
>>>
>>>                    SIZE 12
>>>
>>>                    TYPE truetype
>>>
>>>                  END
>>>
>>>                  TEXT ([RDNAME])
>>>
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