[mapserver-users] problem with demo

[Puneet Kishor]

well, perhaps this thread became more confusing than intended.

Mapserver doesn't do any graphics by itself. It depends upon gd, an
opensource dynamic graphics creation library created by Tom Boutell way back
when. Initially gd supported creating Gifs until Unisys poked its nose and
claimed copyright. Starting post gd1.2, the library was modified to do only
PNGs. Hence all the confusion.

If you can get gd1.2 or earlier, compile it successfully with Mapserver,
then Mapserver will do GIFs. Starting Mapserver 3.4 and currently with 3.5,
support for gd184 is recommended. Gd184 does not do GIFs unless you are from
downunder.

Hth. Sorry... I did not mean to start a bonfire of confusion with this.

pk/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Simpson [mailto:steves8293 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 12:47 PM
> To: Puneet Kishor
> Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] problem with demo
> 
> 
> Huh?  Mapserver doesn't support gifs?  I am definitely
> a beginner, but doesn't the Windows binaries page
> reference binaries with gif support?  
> 
> Steve
> 
> --- Puneet Kishor <pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com> wrote:
> > Joao,
> > 
> > Mapserver 3.5 is built with PNG support. Can't
> > display GIFs. Remove all the
> > refs to GIFs or better yet, get a graphics program
> > and convert the GIFs to
> > PNGs and replace the references with the correct
> > name.
> > 
> > To those who maintain the Itasca demo. Please remove
> > the refs to GIFs from
> > the map file if it is being offered for use with
> > Mapserver 3.5. Having GIFs
> > there doesn't serve any purpose if Mapserver doesn't
> > do GIFs, and it is very
> > confusing for a beginner.
> > 
> > Many thanks,
> > 
> > pk/
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: joao at pmpf.rs.gov.br
> > [mailto:joao at pmpf.rs.gov.br]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 9:52 AM
> > > To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> > > Subject: [mapserver-users] problem with demo
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I had dowload the demo for version 3.5 (itasca). I
> > had 
> > > istalled but it steel
> > > returning this error:
> > > 
> > > msLoadMap(): General error message. Undefined
> > symbol 
> > > "symbols/ctyhwy.gif" in
> > > class 0 of layer ctyrdln3_anno.
> > > 
> > > all the gif references are not working.
> > > What shold i do to fix this erros?
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > João.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > www.pmpf.rs.gov.br
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> 
> 
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