Feature Styling
After the MapTextLabeller installer is ran, the MapText Styler is made available as well. This transformer enables you to specify what the features in a map layer look like. The output port from this transformer can serve as a map layer in a MapText Labeller transformer. These features would possess the configured styling and the MapText Labeller would “see” these map features styled. An example from FME Form is shown below:
It’s possible to insert map layers into the Rule Configurations table in the MapText Labeller to create new input ports and then connect the output from a MapText Styler to one of these user-created input ports.
To configure a MapText Styler transformer, open its properties to show the following dialog:
The Measurement Units specify the units in which to interpret the size values gives for a point symbol size, a line width, and a polygon boundary width.
Specifying a point symbol (in Point Symbol Zone) associates this symbol with every point feature in the input port such that when MapText Labeller receives these features, it will create these point symbols on its view of the map. A point symbol is defined by specifying its size, the TrueType font storing the glyph (character) that represents the symbol, the index in the font to this glyph, and the angle at which the symbol is to be represented on the map.
Specifying a line width (in Line Zone) associates this width with every line feature in the input port such that when MapText Labeller receives these features, it will create these line features with this line width on its view of the map.
Specifying a polygon boundary width (in Polygon Boundary Zone) associates this width with every area feature in the input port such that when MapText Labeller receives these features, it will create these area features with this width on its view of the map.