Thanks Steve. Problem solved. Cheers, Stephen
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 12:44 pm, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: > Stephen, > > The file format is lines like: > > <font_name> </path/to/font/file> > arial /usr/share/fonts/truetype/arial.ttf > arial-bold /usr/share/fonts/truetype/arial-bold.ttf > > I think blank lines are ignored and maybe lines starting with '#', but > not sure on these. > > <font_name> it the name you refer to in your mapfile > </path/to/font/file> is the actual path to the font file you want to use > > -Steve W. > > Stephen Davies wrote: > > G'day. > > > > I see references in postings and doco to fonts.list as what looks like a > > mechanism for telling mapserver where to find truetype fonts but I > > cannot find anything to tell me the format of this file. > > > > The recent paper on cartographic symbols refers to "the ALIAS name of > > the font file to the parameter FONT as defined in the file fonts.list". > > What does this mean? > > > > I have a pretty full set of truetype fonts installed and use them > > successfully with other software but have no file called fonts.list > > anywhere on the system. > > > > Is this maybe a windows-specific thing? > > If so, how does one use truetype fonts with mapserver under Linux? > > > > Cheers and thanks, > > Stephen > > > > -- ======================================================================== This email is for the person(s) identified above, and is confidential to the sender and the person(s). No one else is authorised to use or disseminate this email or its contents. Stephen Davies Consulting Voice: 08-8177 1595 Adelaide, South Australia. Fax: 08-8177 0133 Computing & Network solutions. Mobile:0403 0405 83
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