[mapserver-users] SVG text

[Jefferson Williams]

Matt, excellent idea!

I should also modify my statement. I am sure there were good reasons for
going to Cairo. I don't want to say it was a step backwards generally. But
for those of us that want to auto generate map labels, it was...

--

Jeff
On Dec 31, 2013 7:55 AM, "Matt McClelland" <matt at wildwalks.com> wrote:

> I would also like the SVG text feature.
> Thomas, could you guess at the hours (or cost) involved to add this?
> Maybe there are a few people with the need that can pitch in?
>
> Thanks
>
> Matt :)
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 31/12/2013, at 11:49 PM, Jefferson Williams <
> jefferson.d.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
>
> 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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