[Mapserver-users] colouring problems

[Frank Warmerdam]

Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> Hi Frank,
> 
> the strange thing is that I also had this problem when cascading images 
> coming from ArcIMS.
> 
> We tried both PNG 8 bit and PNG 24 bit output from ArcIMS, and png24 
> output in Mapserver. Then also these problems arose.
> 
> In that case (png24 output in Mapserver), Mapserver could not run out of 
> colours could it?

Bart,

With 24bit png output MapServer should absolutely not run out of colors.
If you can reproduce this in a form that can be easiliy bundled up then
please submit a bug report.

> There is no way to define a colour table in the map file for example?

I am not aware of a clean way.  One not-so-clean way is the dummy layer
with a class for each color you want to include.

Best regards,
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