[mapserver-users] SVG text

[Jefferson Williams]

Thank you for the reply. But that is very disappointing. It appears that
going to Cairo was essentially a step backwards, as this used to be
possible and now it is not. Surely the value of this feature is clear... It
makes SVGs smaller and more efficient (where text is involved) and makes
them more editable.

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Jeff
On Dec 31, 2013 7:14 AM, "thomas bonfort" <thomas.bonfort at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jefferson,
> There is currently no way to produce those elements with mapserver,
> and to my knowledge there are no plans to do so yet. A specific
> rendering driver would need to be implemented to achieve this, but has
> not yet been funded or proposed.
>
> regards,
> thomas
>
> On 24 December 2013 17:42, Jefferson Williams
> <jefferson.d.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm a long-time user of PHP Mapscript and have written code to produce
> maps
> > for Wikipedia.  Older versions of Mapscript produced SVG files that
> > contained text elements.  In more recent versions, text is produced as a
> > series of vectors instead, which means that the text cannot be edited.
> > Often auto-generated maps need to be tweaked in various ways before they
> are
> > ready for the public. Now I can move text, but I cannot edit it.
> >
> > Is there a way with 6.2 or 6.4 that labels can be produced as text
> elements
> > in the resulting SVG file?
> >
> > --
> >
> > Jeff Williams
> >
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