[Tilecache] Text labels getting smudged with tilecache

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 06:58:28PM +0530, louvy.joseph at gmail.com wrote:
> Fonts are getting smudged/smeared through tilecache while the same tile 
> if not passed through tilecache comes out much crisper from the 
> geoesrver. Has anybody seen this issue? It does not happen for every 
> text label though. Lines or points are fine; the problem is only with 
> the labels. I am guessing that this is some kind of problem with PIL. 
> Isn't the PIL supposed to blindly cut the metaTile? Why would it change 
> the colors? Has anybody seen this? And what could be the root cause?

Are you sure you're using the same mime type to talk directly to
GeoServer as TileCache is? I'd expect that you've probably got different
image configurations... for example, one is requesting png8, one is
requesting png24, somehow.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta