[mapserver-users] Problems in making AGG outputformat for WMS

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

Hi There,

  It is a bug. ticket related to it is 
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2957 and should be available for 
the next MapServer release.

Best Regards,


Rahkonen Jukka wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> This MapServer version is 5.2.1 from MS4W, and it tells me for examle:
>  
> MapServer version 5.2.1 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP 
> OUTPUT=PDF OUTPUT=SWF OUTPUT=SVG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=AGG ....
>  
> So it should support AGG rendering.  Now I have created agg OUTPUTFORMAT 
> about as adviced in
> http://www.mapserver.org/output/agg.html
>  
>   OUTPUTFORMAT
>       NAME "AGG"
>       MIMETYPE "image/pngagg"
>       DRIVER "AGG/PNG"
>       EXTENSION "png"
>       IMAGEMODE RGB
>   END
>  
> However, this mimetype is not included in the WMS 1.1.1 GetCapabilities 
> document
> <GetMap>
>       <Format>image/gif</Format>
>       <Format>image/png</Format>
>       <Format>image/png; mode=24bit</Format>
>  
> If I edit OUTPUTFORMAT to have DRIVER "GD/PNG" then my own outputformat 
> is included in GetCapabilies. 
>  
> <GetMap>
>       <Format>image/pngagg</Format>
>       <Format>image/gif</Format>
>       <Format>image/png</Format>
>       <Format>image/png; mode=24bit</Format>
>  
> The problem is that AGG outputformat does not appear on the 
> GetCapabilities and thus WMS clients can not show it on menu.  If I edit 
> WMS getMap request manually to use &FORMAT=image/pngagg it works.  For 
> me this looks like a small bug.  Is it perhaps reported already, or even 
> corrected?
>  
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
> 
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