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

[Michael McInnis]

Thanks, that seems to have fixed things. It only seems to work with arial but the sizes work now. 
I'll look into how to get full control of installed fonts I guess.

Michael McInnis
6033 44th Ave. N.E.
Seattle, WA 98115
206 517-4701

> From: jukka.rahkonen at mmmtike.fi
> To: mmcinnis59 at msn.com; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: VS: [mapserver-users] TYPE/FONT/SIZE breaks labels
> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:09:04 +0000
> 
> 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-
> ________________________________
> 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
 		 	   		  
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