[mapserver-users] Antialiased Lines in mapserver?

Chris Stuber imap at chesapeake.net
Thu Oct 3 14:28:52 EDT 2002



The use of antialiased lines is a really good idea.  I am
not sure about the complexities of integrating ImageMagick
but thats a really good suggestion IMHO.

Regards,

Chris Stuber (mapsurfer)
Silicon Mapping Solutions, Inc.

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, David Monterroso Cabello wrote:

> Hi there!
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>     I'm developing a *streetmap* application using mapserver, and
> although i like the output i get, it still looks bad cause those jagged
> lines. Is there any way to have antialiased lines in mapserver?, i saw
> in some old posts that it was a GD matter, and that even in 2.0 versions
> it still doesn't support antialias. Does somebody know if there is
> another way to do antialiasing?. I tried to render  a double sized image
> and then reduced it with ImageMagick but the results were awful.
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>     And finally,  a question for developers, would it be possible to
> switch to ImageMagick for vector rendering?, that library render fine
> antialiased lines  =), althought i dunno if it support everything
> mapserver needs.
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> Many thanx
>
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> David Monterroso Cabelo
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