Re: [mapserver-users] agg support and accents umlauts

2008-12-11 Thread Knut Behrends
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is my final post on this subject, just to end this topic on a positive note. Although the font management tools on solaris 10 release 08/07 always dump core after a few keystrokes and button clicks, Solaris' truetype fonts themselves are okay. On

Re: [mapserver-users] agg support and accents umlauts

2008-12-08 Thread Knut Behrends
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Coming out of nowhere and bitching on a project because you haven't understood the extent of a closed bug seems to me a very impolite way of introducing yourself and getting people to want to help you imho. Sorry, I didn't want to sound impolite

Re: [mapserver-users] agg support and accents umlauts

2008-12-08 Thread thomas bonfort
On Solaris truetype fonts aren't included by default but have to be installed manually as well. And I didn't find much end user documentation on the internet dealing with installing and configuring mapserver with agg support at all. (I doubt that many users have got it to work or let alone

Re: [mapserver-users] agg support and accents umlauts

2008-12-08 Thread Knut Behrends
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thomas bonfort schrieb: Now onto the points you're raising: - as Tamas said, there's no support for accented characters *with the embedded raster raster fonts*. Truetype fonts don't have this problem provided you use/specify the correct encoding

[mapserver-users] agg support and accents umlauts

2008-12-05 Thread Knut Behrends
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi List, I need some clarification: Do I understand this ticket correctly: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2739 Rendering raster fonts with AGG may cause crash in mapserver I've noticed that rendering raster fonts when the character code