<div>Hi Thomas,</div>
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<div>I'm actually using the latest version of the MapScript c# API. Is it possible to specify whether to use AGG or GD? The font file is definately being continually accessed. Any ideas?</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Jon-Paul.<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:10 PM, thomas bonfort <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.bonfort@gmail.com">thomas.bonfort@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">what mapserver version and renderer/driver are you using?<br><br>AGG should'nt be accessing the font file unless a new character is<br>
encountered. For GD I don't know.<br><br>--<br><font color="#888888">thomas<br></font>
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<div class="h5"><br>On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 18:00, Jon-Paul Dobson <<a href="mailto:jpdobson40@gmail.com">jpdobson40@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Thanks guys. I will give this ago. Any ideas about poor performance when<br>
> using a true type font? Why does MapServer need to load the .ttf file each<br>> time to draw a symbol. Surely the ttf file should be cached?<br>><br>> Rgards,<br>> Jon-Paul.<br>><br>> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Jeff McKenna<br>
> <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> On 11-05-11 12:47 PM, Jon-Paul Dobson wrote:<br>>>><br>>>> Hi Jukka,<br>>>> Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. No I haven't tried this. How<br>
>>> is this done and what is the benefit? Aren't Shape files already indexed?<br>>>> Regards,<br>>>> Jon-Paul.<br>>><br>>> Jukka is right, always make sure to run the shptree commandline utility on<br>
>> all of your ESRI shapefiles before using them in MapServer<br>>> (<a href="http://mapserver.org/utilities/shptree.html" target="_blank">http://mapserver.org/utilities/shptree.html</a>). You'll see huge speed<br>
>> differences.<br>>><br>>> -jeff<br>>><br>>><br>>> --<br>>> Jeff McKenna<br>>> MapServer Consulting and Training Services<br>>> <a href="http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/" target="_blank">http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/</a><br>
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