[ka-Map-users] Bug in label rendering

[Loïc MAZE]

All my label layers have "PARTIALS OFF".
Here's an example of the values I use in my mapfile :

LABEL
        FONT "times"
        SIZE 14
        TYPE TRUETYPE
        BUFFER 0
        COLOR 0 0 0
        FORCE TRUE
        OFFSET 0 0
        PARTIALS OFF
        POSITION CC
END

I have played a long time by changing those values but I have no result. I 
can notice that if FORCE has FALSE value, the labels are not visible any 
more (with TRUE value they are truncated), but it is probably not the 
problem...

Regards,
Loïc


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Schmidt" <crschmidt at crschmidt.net>
To: "Loïc MAZE" <lm at geosphere.fr>
Cc: "Mailing de Ka-Map" <ka-map-users at lists.maptools.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: [ka-Map-users] Bug in label rendering


> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 02:55:46PM +0100, Loïc MAZE wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have some troubles with the current version of Ka-map. I would like to 
>> draw some labels thanks to the label object used by Mapserver to define a 
>> label. They are well drawn by Ka-Map but they are often truncated at tile 
>> boundaries. It happens when the label is too long to be contained by one 
>> tile. It really seems like this bug : 
>> http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1379 . It is marked as 
>> resolved for the 0.2 version of Ka-Map but changing the $metaBuffer var 
>> (in config.php) doesn't work for me. I have played with the values of the 
>> other vars contained in this file but I was unsuccessful.
>
> Does your mapfile have "PARTIALS OFF" on your label layers? This is
> probably important: it prevents mapsever from trying to draw off the
> edge of the map. If this isn't the case, ka-Map won't draw them
> correctly regardless, because its edge label prevention is simply not
> taken into account.
>
> I'd recommend trying that, and if it doesn't work, report back.
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> Christopher Schmidt
> Web Developer