antialiasing stuff

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

I have not seen an equivalent term in the sld specs.

Steve Lime wrote:

>I think in the next version we could expose the hardness setting to mapfile
>tweaking... What's the equivalent terminiology in something like SLD?
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>Steve
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>>>>Paul Spencer <pspencer at DMSOLUTIONS.CA> 01/13/06 2:43 PM >>>
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>cool, thanks :)  I hadn't tried it, thought I would ask first.  I've  
>managed to achieve almost the desired effect by jacking the hardness  
>to 0.95 and fixing the gd bug for 1 pixel lines since I asked so  
>maybe we won't end up going this route.
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>Cheers
>
>Paul
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>PS: any chance of having a HARDNESS keyword at the style level?
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>On 13-Jan-06, at 2:55 PM, Steve Lime wrote:
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>>This should be doable "as is". Just set TRANSPARENCY ALPHA and point
>>to the right image in your style or symbol definition. All the  
>>fuzzy brush
>>support does is do this programatically.
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>>I believe I've tested this before using an image or two that Sean  
>>had created
>>while fixing another bug.
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>>Have you tried it and it doesn't work?
>>
>>Steve
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>>>>>Paul Spencer <pspencer at DMSOLUTIONS.CA> 01/13/06 12:59 PM >>>
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>>Steve,
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>>what would it take to support rendering lines with custom symbols
>>that have alpha transparency in them?  We would like to be able to
>>make our own brushes that work in the same way that fuzzy brushes
>>work, but we pre-render them and access them as symbols.  This would
>>allow finer control over styling without having to tweak mapserver
>>code to get the desired effect :)
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>Paul
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