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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi Steve,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">That’s not my problem, I just wondered if we could help the original poster. But the OP was clever enough to use a wide outline with the fill color and that probably gives a satisfactory
 result though not perfect. The wide line grows both outwards and inwards and the partial transparency is not perfect where the fill meets the outline. And when a  colored outline is widened it starts to paint over the label text.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">-Jukka-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Lähettäjä:</b> Steve Lime <sdlime@gmail.com> <br>
<b>Lähetetty:</b> perjantai 29. huhtikuuta 2022 17.07<br>
<b>Vastaanottaja:</b> Rahkonen Jukka (MML) <jukka.rahkonen@maanmittauslaitos.fi><br>
<b>Kopio:</b> Mapserver-Users (mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org) <mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org><br>
<b>Aihe:</b> Re: [mapserver-users] Any trick to buffer labelpoly?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Looks like there were some new responses on the post referenced. Will those work for you? Otherwise we’d have to re-think the label poly geomtranform to either allow an argument or be embedded in a more complex expression.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 1:24 AM Rahkonen Jukka (MML) <<a href="mailto:jukka.rahkonen@maanmittauslaitos.fi">jukka.rahkonen@maanmittauslaitos.fi</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">There is a wish to buffer the labelpoly in
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https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/429779/mapserver-background-buffer-around-labels-geomtransform-labelpoly</a> but it does not seem to be supported directly. Can anybody suggest a trick or workaround?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">-Jukka Rahkonen-</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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