[mapserver-dev] [Support for reading SVG symbols-MapServer-GSoC]Kiran Anjaneya Varma

[Dan Little]

Oh no, I wasn't trying to suggest rendering it into a Raster.  Just to do something like...

STYLE
SYMBOL '../my_svg_symbols/watermark.svg'

ROTATE 45 # Rotate the SVG symbol 45*

SIZE 10  # scale it up 10 times

END

This way the individual renders could handle the appropriate drawing and coloring of the SVG symbol.


----- Original Message ----
> From: Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com>
> To: mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 3:10:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] [Support for reading SVG symbols-MapServer-GSoC]Kiran Anjaneya Varma
> 
> Dan Little wrote:
> > (additional spit  balling)
> > 
> > Wouldn't the raster-symbol handler be more appropriate for the SVG symbols (as 
> opposed to the SYMBOL functionality) as SVG can carry color information...  
> raster-symbols can also be rotated and scaled properly.
> > 
> 
> Scaling and rotating raster symbols results in a loss of quality, so it's not 
> enough to just render the SVG into a raster and then treat (scale/rotate) it as 
> a raster symbol. However a simple way to approach this could be to scale and 
> rotate the SVG vectors first, render that with colors into a small raster and 
> then run it through the raster-symbol handling code... I believe that's more or 
> less what the vector symbol code does already.
> 
> Daniel
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