How can I smoothen the (GIF)-output of the mapserver

[Wolfgang Qual]

Devinitively! If you could give some examples / how-to's I would be very
glad. I am curious about it.

Regards,
Wolfgang


Camden Daily schrieb:

> I believe what you're looking for is antialiasing, in order to make
> things like lines less pixelated.  Antialiasing is available for text
> and a few of the symbol types, but I had more luck taking the advise
> of some on the listserve and using php/mapscript to actually draw the
> maps at a larger scale and then letting php resample the image down to
> the final size, antialiasing in the process.
>
> If you're interested in some of the details for that method, let me
> know and I'll post some stuff.
>
> -Camden Daily
> Prudential Preferred Properties
> http://www.prupref.com
>
> On 4/25/05, Wolfgang Qual <Wolfgang.Qual at muenchen.de> wrote:
>
>>Hello list,
>>When I create a mapserver-map, I sometimes have the impression that the
>>maps look quite square-edged. Especially, if the color contrast of
>>certain themes is high (b/w.). That's the reason why I am looking for a
>>way to smoothen the output-GIFs of the mapserver - just something like
>>the blur-filtering in Photoshop or GIMP...
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Wolfgang
>>
>
>

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