[mapserver-dev] SVG, PDF and Flash output in MapServer 6.0.

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

  Hi all,

  The Dev team is reviewing and preparing for the 6.0 MapServer release 
[1][2].   There are significant changes and new features in this 
release. One of them is the rendering overhaul. The reasons behind is to 
facilitate the long term maintenance and make sure that all the output 
formats are in sync feature-wise.
Currently output drivers such as svg, pdf and flash lag in functionality 
and supported features compare to the AGG/GD output.
As part of  this re-factoring, the Cairo library [3] will be added 
allowing SVG and PDF outputs to pass through this library.  This would 
deprecate the current support of native svg and pdf in MapServer.

The other renderer that is affected is the SWF (Flash) renderer: at this 
point there is no effort to bring this output feature to the level of 
other renderers. This means that there is a big chance that the SWF 
support will not be part of the 6.0 release (unless someone wants to 
fund it).  Is this something that affects lots/some users?

best regards,


[1] http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/60ReleasePlan
[2] http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/60MigrationIssues
[3] http://cairographics.org/


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