AGG does not render text or truetype symbols using character number

[tbonfort]

from  http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/symbology/examples :

setting a character for truetype symbols can be done by specifying its character number (same way as with html entities)

CHARACTER "r"

which is not supported by the AGG font rendering

[tbonfort]

should be fixed in r7040 . project10, can you confirm and close the bug ?

[project10]

Confirmed, the TrueType? labels are now displayed. Thank you tbonfort.

[elzouavo]

Symbols with GD using arial font and MapInfo? Symbols font

[elzouavo]

Symbols with AGG using arial font and MapInfo? Symbols font

[elzouavo]

All is OK when rendering uses GD. When rendering uses AGG symbols with Mapinfo Symbols font are not well rendered.

The symbols :
SYMBOL

NAME "mapinfosymbols_x0037"
TYPE TRUETYPE
FONT mapinfosymbols
FILLED true
ANTIALIAS true
CHARACTER'7'

END
SYMBOL

NAME "arial_x0021"
TYPE TRUETYPE
FONT arial
FILLED true
ANTIALIAS true
CHARACTER "!"

END

See symbols_with_GD.png to view the result with GD. See symbols_with_AGG.png to view the result with AGG. All is in the ZIP file.

[elzouavo]

all files to test (without arial font)

[elzouavo]

It seems that the symbol fonts are not supported by AGG.

OGG supports only character fonts.

[tbonfort]

lookup by character number is ok.

for the problem raised by elzouavo, see #3018