Neil -
Could you give an example of the text in one of the SpeciesLabel fields? What
alphabet, character set, and language is the SpeciesLabel field stored in? If
you switch to a different FONT does the output change?
At first glance you appear to have code points in the label that are not
representable in the selected font. That might not be the problem, but it's
worth eliminating - hence my questions above.
- Ed
Ed McNierney
Chief Mapmaker
Demand Media / TopoZone.com
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA 01863
Phone: 978-251-4242, Fax: 978-251-1396
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From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil
Fincham
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 3:37 PM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Unusual Fonts
Hi all,
I am really enjoying my first delve into mapping and like to say thanks
for the great software.
I am havering a bit of a problem and I am sure it is something easy, I
am getting unusual fonts rendering using SDE. It works fine with the shape
files but with SDE the text parts come out wrong. I have attached a sample.
Here are some bits from my mapfile;-
OUTPUTFORMAT
NAME 'AGG'
DRIVER AGG/PNG
IMAGEMODE RGB
END
LAYER
NAME LandUnit
METADATA
"DESCRIPTION" "Land Unit"
"RESULT_FIELDS" "ForestCode Description"
END
TYPE POLYGON
STATUS ON
CONNECTIONTYPE PLUGIN
PLUGIN "/ms4w/Apache/specialplugins/msplugin_sde_92.dll"
CONNECTION "palustris,port:5155,d,ms_user,p4ss\/\/ord"
DATA "d.DBO.LandUnit,SHAPE,SDE.DEFAULT"
TOLERANCE 5
TEMPLATE "ttt_query.html"
CLASS
SYMBOL 0
COLOR 255 255 255
OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
TEXT ([SpeciesLabel] [YOE] [AreaHA]ha)
LABEL
FONT "vera"
TYPE truetype
SIZE 8
BUFFER 1
COLOR 0 0 0
BACKGROUNDCOLOR 255 255 255
WRAP " "
ENCODING UTF-16
END
END
END # Layer
The [SpeciesLabel] is the one with the problem, the "[YOE] [AreaHA]ha"
are numbers and render correctly. I have tried various ENCODING types to no
avail.
Thanks for your time
Neil
