[Mapserver-users] EXTENSION parameter in OUTPUTFORMAT removed?

[Dylan Keon]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>
>  o I could implementing a processing directive forcing the greyscale
>    colormap allocator to use a reduced number of colors.
> 
> Let me know if you would like me to do the last item.  There are various
> ways it could be implemented.  One is to give the raster color allocator
> a "threshold" within which it would consider an existing color a match.
> For instance, if you gave a color threshold of 6 then only about 256/3
> greyscale values would be allocated.  This would also apply to 
> pseudocolored images that have alot of colors that are very close to one
 > another.

I think this would be great, as long as it isn't too expensive in terms 
of processing time.  It would be nice to just change this flag instead 
of processing each image to reduce the colors.

--Dylan