[maplab-users] Labeling issue

[Zak James]

Hi,

How did you install maplab? Are you using the ms4w package? What you 
describe suggests that the truetype font support is not present in 
mapscript for some reason.

zak
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Zak James
Applications and Software Development
DM Solutions Group Inc.
http://www.dmsolutions.ca


On Jul 8, 2004, at 11:14 AM, kgrootendorst at baird.com wrote:

> I'm a new MapLab/MapServer user, so this is probably a basic question.
> I'm having trouble labeling features in MapLab (attribute column = 
> NAME),
> and I'm not sure why.  Below is a snippet of code from my mapfile,
> defining a particular layer:
>
> LAYER
>     NAME "New_York_County"
>     STATUS ON
>     DATA "./New_York_County"
>     TYPE POLYGON
>     UNITS METERS
>     SIZEUNITS PIXELS
>     #CLASSITEM "NAME"
>     LABELITEM "NAME"
>     CLASS
>       NAME "New_York_County"
>       TEMPLATE "ttt"
>       LABEL
>         TYPE TRUETYPE
>         FONT "fritqat"
>         SIZE 10
>         POSITION AUTO
>         COLOR 255 0 0
>       END
>       STYLE
>         SYMBOL 0
>         COLOR 252 241 207
>         OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>       END
>     END
>
> When I uncomment out the LABELITEM tag, I can't preview the map.   If I
> comment out the tag, the map draws fine - just without labels.
> I'm sure it's something really simple to fix.  Any ideas?
>
> Windows 2000
> maplab-2.1-rc3
> mapserver 4.2
> Apache 2.0
> php 4.3.4
>
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