agg changes again...

[Paul Spencer]

Thomas,

Assefa and Zak completed an initial version of an ImageMagick  
renderer, which did a nice job but was pretty slow, as much as 10  
times slower than GD in fact.  I believe that we dropped it in favour  
of AGG.  I'm not sure if any code got committed, but it should still  
be around somewhere if you are interested in taking a look at it.

Cheers

Paul

On 3-Sep-07, at 4:47 AM, thomas bonfort wrote:

> quick update on this one...
> after some more trying on this, it turns out that making the non-alpha
> renderer cohabit with with-alpha one (necessary when working in
> imagemode RGBA) is actually far from trivial without great amounts of
> code duplication.
> so I guess we'll really have to push this back, if we ever even do get
> to use this ( in a recent discussion with Tamas we seemed to arrive to
> the conclusion that having the pure rendering functions called through
> a vtable would be feasible... therefore completely avoiding the need
> to go into all this )
>
> on a side note, does anyone have any information on the status of
> adding an imagemagick renderer to mapserver (as shows up in
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/release_plans/ 
> mapserver_5_2/release_plan/
> )
>
> thomas

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