[Mapserver-users] PNG24 bit not working for me

[woodbri at swoodbridge.com]

Frank,

Great, that did the trick. I will file a bug to make the first user defined output block be the default. I think it will eliminate a lot of future confusion.

Many thanks,
  -Steve W.

Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> woodbri at swoodbridge.com wrote:
> > This is probably my bad, but I dont see the problem. I'm using a CGI query to
> > /cgi-bin/mapserv on RH8/Appache2/PHP-4.3.1 and mapserver built as:
> > 
> > MapScript Version ($Revision: 1.129 $ $Date: 2002/12/17 22:52:53 $) MapServer
> > version 3.7 (development) OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP
> > OUTPUT=PDF OUTPUT=SWF SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=TTF SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER
> > SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE
> > 
> > The request gets and returns the geoTIFF raster data and returns a png file,
> > but it is an 8-bit png not a 24-bit png. The geotiff data is 3 band color
> > image (ie: 24-bits).
> > 
> > Does this mapfile look right? Is there a magic mapserver configure option I
> > missed?
> > 
> > built with gd-2.0.11 (gif patched), gdal-1.1.8, ogr, wms, wfs, ming. gdal was
> > built with the system png not the internal png.
> 
> Steve,
> 
> I believe that the IMAGETYPE defaults to the first one defined when not
> given explicitly, and there are a bunch of "implicitly" defined OUTPUTFORMATs
> that kick in first.  So, I would suggest you add an IMAGETYPE png24 line
> in your mapfile.
> 
> If you find this sufficiently annoying you could file a bug report/enhancement
> request to default to using the first _user defined_ OUTPUTFORMAT instead of
> just the first one in the internal list when an IMAGETYPE is not given.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
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