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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi everyone,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm having a problem using mapserv to output a pdf
file.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I using query_string from the dos commandline and
the following is what I type:</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>C:\development\MapServer\MapServer\v4.6.0\20050616_official\mapserver-4.6.0\andrewtest>mapserv
QUERY_STRING="MAP=test.map&VERSION=1.1.1<BR>&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&SRS=EPSG:26711&LAYERS=LVL1,LVL2,LVL3,LVL4&WIDTH=1024&HEIGHT=1024&BGCOLOR=0xFFFFFF&EXCEPTIONS=application/vn<BR>d.ogc.se.xml&FORMAT=application/x-pdf"
>test.pdf</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It comes out with an error saying that the format
is unsupported - here is the output:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><?xml version='1.0' encoding="ISO-8859-1"
standalone="no" ?><BR><!DOCTYPE ServiceExceptionReport SYSTEM "<A
href="http://schemas.opengeospatial.net/wms/1.1.1/exception_1_1_1.dtd">http://schemas.opengeospatial.net/wms/1.1.1/exception_1_1_1.dtd</A>"><BR><ServiceExceptionReport
version="1.1.1"><BR><ServiceException
code="InvalidFormat"><BR>msWMSLoadGetMapParams(): Image handling error.
Unsupported output format
(application/x-pdf).<BR></ServiceException><BR></ServiceExceptionReport></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've compiled mapserv to use pdflib, and it works
when i use shp2img to create a pdf file, but I'd like to get it to work using
WMS.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can anyone help?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Andrew</FONT></DIV>
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