[MapProxy] Re: MapProxy Digest, Vol 23, Issue 20

[Dražen Odobašić]

On 30.01.2012 03:05, DeDuikertjes wrote:
> Dejan,
> 
> How did you use Cairo instead of PIL.
> I'm very interested.
> 
> Marco
> 

Hi,

in the end we managed to implement alpha blending in PIL when pasting
RGBA images. You need to patch libImaging/Paste.c with Paste_RGBA.patch.
However, this has only been tested with equally sized images without
mask, so it works for MapProxy use case.

To use cairo you need to install pycairo. And, you can even install
pycairo in virutalenv if you are careful with PREFIX param when running
configure. pycairo depends on version of cairo library in your
distribution, and some really old ones, like 1.6.4, do throw Python
MemoryError exception, YMMV

Also, you need to patch image/__init__.py with MP_CAIRO.patch (works for
MapProxy 1.3.0). As this is a proof of concept, it just overwrites
existing code that handles layer merging. For instance, if you use
'opacity' layer setting, you'll need to modify it.

Dražen

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