Re: Fwd: [mapserver-users] Failed to show Arabic labels with MapServer 5.2

2008-11-18 Thread Jackey Cheung
Dear Stephen, I've filed a ticket http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2812. Thank you very much for the help! Thank you TC, Stephen, and Dane. ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ma

Re: Fwd: [mapserver-users] Failed to show Arabic labels with MapServer 5.2

2008-11-18 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
OK, this is great. I think I learned something new then. With ANGLE AUTO you can ask GD to draw the whole string at the specified angle. But there is not equivalent function in GD for ANGLE FOLLOW. The only way we can do that is one character at a time, changing the insertion point and angle of

Fwd: [mapserver-users] Failed to show Arabic labels with MapServer 5.2

2008-11-18 Thread Jackey Cheung
Following TC's suggestion, I've done a test. With this map file layer: LAYER NAME"road" STATUSDEFAULT TYPELINE UNITSMETERS CONNECTIONTYPE