[mapserver-users] TYPE/FONT/SIZE breaks labels

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Hi,

Add DEBUG 5 into your LAYER and you may see from the MS_ERRORFILE what is the problem. My bet is that you are missing the FONTSET http://www.mapserver.org/mapfile/fontset.html

-Jukka Rahkonen-
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Michael McInnis wrote:

> Mapservers!

> I have bailed on dynamically generating labels and fell back to a .map based solution and may have found the primary problem. If I enable TYPE or FONT or SIZE in the LABEL section my map fails to display. I installed Truetype fonts on my Ubuntu system on Friday.

> Does anyone know why the fonts will not function?

LAYER
        CONNECTIONTYPE POSTGIS
        NAME airports
        CONNECTION "host=xxxx dbname=xxxx user=xxxx password=xxxx port=xxxx"
        PROCESSING "CLOSE_CONNECTION=DEFER"
        #DATA "geom From airports"
        DATA "geom From (select a.icao, geom From airports a left join airportdata e on a.icao = e.icao where e.icao Is Not Null) as subquery using unique icao using srid=4326"
        STATUS ON
        TYPE POINT
        LABELITEM "icao"
        CLASS
            LABEL
        #TYPE        truetype
        #FONT         "sans"
        #SIZE        8
                ANTIALIAS     TRUE
                POSITION     AUTO
                PARTIALS     TRUE
                MINDISTANCE     100
                BUFFER         4
                COLOR         0 0 0
            END
            NAME "airportsClass"
        STYLE
                SYMBOL 'circle-filled'
                SIZE 3
                COLOR 255 22 22
            END
        END # Class
    END # Layer