[mapserver-users] Annotation label with styleitem auto uses bitmap font

[Humberto Cereser Ibanez]

Hi Jelmer,

On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 15:30 +0000, Jelmer Baas wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have some converted AutoCAD files in MapInfo format that I'm showing via MapScript (up-to-date, via apt get). To show all components, each TAB file has both a 'line' layer (styleitem "auto") and an 'annotation' layer (also set to styleitem "auto"). This has worked fine for ages, but there are two issues:
> 
> - Special characters aren't displayed
> - We now have a new file, which has an odd font size
> 
> Because of this new file, I'm beging flooded with this message:
> msGetRasterTextBBox(): General error message. selected renderer does not support bitmap font size 13
> 
> Both issues obviously mean MapServer is using its built-in bitmap font. Is there a way to override this? I've tried a few options already:
> - Switching to PNG instead of GIF output format
> - Setting class.label properties; this has been removed in 6.2

Did you try set LABEL properties: 
FONT to TRUETYPE and 
ENCODING to "UTF8" or something like that?

Regards,

Humberto

> - Creating a new labelObj, and adding it via class.addLabel; this manages to crash my python script (not getting caught in try/catch) without leaving any logs when styleitem is still set to "auto"
> - Adding a default and Arial entry in my fontlist file. This seems to be ignored.
> 
> Furthermore, I can't seem to get ANY logging from MapScript. I've tried setting debug to MS_TRUE in the layer, mapfile, class, etc. Log file is being created (in /tmp) but remains empty.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong? Missing something? Any help would be greatly appreciated! 
> 
> Regards,
> Jelmer
> 
> 
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