[Geomoose-users] Output format AGG?

[Dan Little]

That's a "gotcha" of the PHP_MAPSCRIPT.DLL, it's not linked against AGG.



----- Original Message ----
> From: Nelson Soto <NSoto at plotplans.com>
> To: Sacha Black <sacha.black at gmail.com>; Jim Klassen <Jim.Klassen at ci.stpaul.mn.us>
> Cc: geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net; Bob Basques <Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:05:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] Output format AGG?
> 
> Printing to PDF doesn't work with AGG, IIRC.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sacha Black [mailto:sacha.black at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 10:51 AM
> To: Jim Klassen
> Cc: geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net; Bob Basques
> Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] Output format AGG?
> 
> Thanks Jim and Bob - both very helpful
> 
> SB
> 
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Jim Klassen
> wrote:
> 
> > There is a catch here if your users use IE 6. AGG need full 24-bit
> color to handle the sub-pixel rendering that allows it to look better
> than GD. GeoMOOSE requires transparent images (except for backgrounds
> which are at the bottom of the stack anyway) so you can see through the
> layers to see the layers underneath the current layer. The problem is IE
> 6 (and earlier) does not display 24-bit transparent PNGs correctly. IE 7
> and just about any other browser should work fine.
> >
> > The AGG_Q format below is a compromise to retain 256 colors with AGG,
> however if you have more than a few colors in the map, you will loose
> some of the advantage of AGG because it won't have enough colors (of the
> 256) left to do the dithering.
> >
> >>>> "Bob Basques" 01/12/09 5:00 PM >>>
> 
> > Sacha,
> >
> > You need to make sure your MapServer install has
> > AGG compiled in.
> >
> > Here is a MapFile fragment for AGG that I have that works:
> >
> > MAP
> >  NAME 'label_shields'
> >  SIZE 800 650
> >  STATUS ON
> >  EXTENT 332000 -18000 678000 328000
> >  UNITS FEET
> >  FONTSET ./interstate.fonts
> >  SYMBOLSET ./interstate.symbols
> >  TRANSPARENT TRUE
> >  #IMAGECOLOR 239 235 231 #GOOGLE BG COLOR
> >
> >  #IMAGETYPE PNG  ## This uses the MapServer GD image builder
> >  IMAGETYPE AGGA  ## This uses the AGG image builder if compiled into
> MapServer.  It's defined below.
> >
> >        LEGEND
> >                STATUS ON
> >                KEYSPACING 5 10
> >                KEYSIZE 20 12
> >                IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
> >                LABEL
> >                  TYPE TRUETYPE
> >                  FONT bluehigh
> >                  COLOR 0 0 0
> >                  OUTLINECOLOR 254 254 254
> >                  SIZE 12
> >                END
> >        END
> >
> >  OUTPUTFORMAT
> >    NAME 'AGGA'
> >    DRIVER AGG/PNG
> >    IMAGEMODE RGBA
> >    #FORMATOPTION "TRANSPARENT=ON"
> >    #TRANSPARENT ON
> >  END
> >
> >  OUTPUTFORMAT
> >    NAME 'AGG_Q'
> >    DRIVER AGG/PNG
> >    IMAGEMODE RGBA
> >    FORMATOPTION "QUANTIZE_FORCE=ON"
> >    FORMATOPTION "QUANTIZE_DITHER=OFF"
> >    FORMATOPTION "QUANTIZE_COLORS=255"
> >    TRANSPARENT ON
> >  END
> >
> > . . . . .
> >
> >
> >
> >>>> "Sacha Black" 01/12/09 4:46 PM >>>
> > hi all,
> >
> > is it possible to get GeoMoose to request it's images from Mapserver
> > with AGG rendering? I tried putting this in my map files:
> >
> >  OUTPUTFORMAT
> >  DRIVER AGG/PNG
> >  IMAGEMODE RGBA
> >  END
> >
> > but it didn't seem to make a difference... is there someplace to set
> > this besides the map file?
> >
> > sacha
> >
> >
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