<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>If the quality is different between PNG and GIF you are probably using PNG24 (as PNG8 and GIF should be identical image wise).<br></div><div><br></div><div>My guess is a GD bug dealing with PNG24. I'm not sure what your options are, but it sounds like the print.php needs to be rewritten with a more modern library.</div><div><br>On Nov 23, 2011, at 9:11, "Bistrais, Bob" <<a href="mailto:Bob.Bistrais@maine.gov">Bob.Bistrais@maine.gov</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Looks like I’m using png. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">One thing I tried was to use gif in the
mapbook.xml, for those WMS layers, but while they displayed alright, the
quality was awful.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Bob Basques
[mailto:Bob.Basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, November 23, 2011
10:05 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b>
<a href="mailto:geomoose-users@lists.osgeo.org">geomoose-users@lists.osgeo.org</a>; Bistrais, Bob<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> RE: [Geomoose-users]
Printing wms layers</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">What version of PNG, PNG8
PNG24, etc.</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">bobb</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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>>> "Bistrais, Bob" <<a href="mailto:Bob.Bistrais@maine.gov">Bob.Bistrais@maine.gov</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Yes, the WMS is outputting PNG.
What would be recommended instead?<o style="color: navy; font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial" p="#DEFAULT"></o></span></font>
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Basques [mailto:Bob.Basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us]<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, November 22,
2011 4:54 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:geomoose-users@lists.osgeo.org">geomoose-users@lists.osgeo.org</a>;
Bistrais, Bob<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re:
[Geomoose-users] Printing wms layers</span></font><o p="#DEFAULT"></o> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Something to look at . .
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">What is the format of
the images from the WMS service?</span></font><o p="#DEFAULT"></o> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">PNG24 vs other PNG
formats have caused problem in cross browser situations. Some versions
of IE don't like one or the other for example.</span></font><o p="#DEFAULT"></o>
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>>> "Bistrais, Bob" <<a href="mailto:Bob.Bistrais@maine.gov">Bob.Bistrais@maine.gov</a>> wrote:<o style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman" p="#DEFAULT"></o>
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font-family:Arial">I had brought up this question before but it seems to be
happening again. I have a few layers that I consume in GeoMoose by
WMS. Some of these are vecot line layers such as roads. They
work perfectly in GeoMoose map view. But when I compose a printable
map, these layers have a black background which obscures other layers and
just plain looks ugly. If I set the “transparent” property to
false, the black background goes away, but then I can’t see any underlying
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">By the way, I do have control over the WMS services in
this case. I tried to set Offsite to 0 0 0, but that didn’t seem to
help either. The WMS is at MapServer 6.0.1. Any suggestions?<o style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial" p="#DEFAULT"></o></span></font><o p="#DEFAULT"></o>
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