[Mapserver-users] making the demo work with non-gif GD libs

[Lowell Filak]

You could try "convert" - part of the Imagemagick package.
HTH
Lowell F.

The following message was sent by richard hornsby <rhornsby at io.osuedc.org> on Mon, 6 Jan 2003 09:03:51 -0500 (EST).

> 
> I think I'm running with GD libs somewhere around 1.8, but the point being
> that they don't support GIF rendering, because of the patent issues, etc.
> However, when running the mapserv demo, I wasn't getting errors
> specifically related to GD - instead I was getting things like:
> 
>  msLoadMap(): General error message. Undefined symbol "symbols/ctyhwy.gif"
>  in class 0 of layer ctyrdln3_anno.
> 
> The "symbol" exists in the directory that it should.  The docs suggest to
> comment out large sections of your .map file.  However, I converted the
> .gif symbols and 'reference.gif' to pngs, and changed the references in
> demo.map to png, it works happily.
> 
> Slightly off-topic, for larger projects which need this kind of
> conversion, you can certainly use sed on the .map file, but does anyone
> know of tools to convert images between formats quickly (ala sox)?
> 
> thanks
> -rj
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