[mapserver-dev] MS-RFC-55: Improving control of output resolution

[Havard Tveite]

Excellent!

I am very happy to observe that, as a side-effect, support
for consistent symbol scaling (as suggested in RFC45 -
Symbology, Labeling, and Cartography Improvements) now is
gaining support.  :-)

Håvard Tveite

Daniel Morissette wrote:
> RFC 55 has been updated with the list of affected parameters. the new 
> version should be online in the next hour at:
> http://www.mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-55.html
> 
> I'll leave another day for comments and will call for a vote later this 
> week if there are no more changes required.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> thomas bonfort wrote:
>> It will be up to the rendering code to decide what is scaled or not.
>> The RFC should probably go into more detail for exactly which
>> parameters will be affected by the scaling. Other candidates that come
>> to mind are:
>> * offsets (line, point, polygon)
>> * pattern (line)
>> * outlinewidth (labels)
>> * shadowsize, background-shadow-size (labels)
>> * buffer around labels (colision) ?
>> * minfeaturesize, mindistance (labels)
>>
>> thomas
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 17:58, Paul Spencer <pspencer at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:
>>> Daniel,
>>>
>>> will this be applied to the gap in symbols?
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>> On 9-Mar-09, at 3:48 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
>>>
>>>> Following a discussion at the code sprint this morning, I have prepared MS
>>>> RFC 55 that documents the solution that we came up with for improving
>>>> control of output resolution when printing. We realize that there were
>>>> interesting ideas proposed on the -dev list in the thread on this topic a
>>>> couple of weeks ago (like the use of point units for instance), but we chose
>>>> this approach because it is the most straightforward for users and requires
>>>> very little change to the source and to existing apps/mapfiles.
>>>>
>>>> The RFC is going to be online within the next hour at:
>>>> http://www.mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-55.html
>>>>
>>>> Daniel
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