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Hi all,<br>
<br>
The Dev team is reviewing and preparing for the 6.0 MapServer
release [1][2]. There are significant changes and new features in
this release. One of them is the rendering overhaul. The reasons
behind is to facilitate the long term maintenance and make sure that
all the output formats are in sync feature-wise. <br>
Currently output drivers such as svg, pdf and flash lag in
functionality and supported features compare to the AGG/GD output. <br>
As part of this re-factoring, the Cairo library [3] will be added
allowing SVG and PDF outputs to pass through this library. This
would deprecate the current support of native svg and pdf in
MapServer.<br>
<br>
The other renderer that is affected is the SWF (Flash) renderer: at
this point there is no effort to bring this output feature to the
level of other renderers. This means that there is a big chance that
the SWF support will not be part of the 6.0 release (unless
someone wants to fund it). Is this something that affects lots/some
users?<br>
<br>
best regards,<br>
<br>
<br>
[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/60ReleasePlan">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/60ReleasePlan</a><br>
[2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/60MigrationIssues">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/60MigrationIssues</a><br>
[3] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://cairographics.org/">http://cairographics.org/</a><br>
<br>
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