mapimages have different hue (off-colour)

[Stephen Woodbridge]

What version of mapserver are you running?
Have you looked at this bug?
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=306
Have you tried viewing it on another system, or viewed it in another
program like photoshop?

-Steve W.

Jacob Delfos wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Got an interesting problem, which I hope someone recognises; My mapimage
> has changed hue in the last weeks. I am not sure what I changed to cause
> this. Perhaps an external program changed something about how my
> computer creates images. However, even if I restore the gdal12.dll file
> that I used previously (or any other of the many versions I have), my
> image is still off-colour. It is greenish/yellowish compared to the
> normal colour. It is still 24bit jpeg, though. But the mapimages from
> all php_mapscript based sites that I run from this machine have suddenly
> got this greenish tint.
>
> I suspect it may be something about the overal system, because I once
> noticed how different machines (a win2k desktop, and an XP laptop)
> generated slightly differently coloured mapimages (different hue,
> different saturation), even though both machines were installed with the
> exact same mapserver files. I tried running the site using a browser on
> the host and on a different machine, but both images look greenish.
>
> Does anyone know what could affect the hue of the mapimage? Something
> global?
>
> regards,
>
> Jacob
>
>
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