Antialias lines - error

[Howard Butler]

<http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/compiling_on_unix/#px-anti-aliasing-and-segfaults>

At 04:23 PM 9/20/2006, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>There is a very important patch to GD for this very problem of
>crashing with antialiasing (it's not a MapServer problem).  Search
>the list archives for details.  It's not in the official GD release,
>and I don't know if any linux binary packages have it, so you'll
>probably have to build GD yourself.  I thought I saw it mentioned on
>the MapServer site somewhere, but a search didn't turn up anything.
>
>On Sep 20, 2006, at 3:51 PM, Jennifer Strahan wrote:
>
> > Hello Andreas,
> >
> > Thanks for your response.  I currently have:
> >
> > MapServer version 4.8.3.
> > PHP/Mapscript ($Revision: 1.242.2.2 $ $Date: 2006/03/16 21:03:01 $)
> > GD version  2.0 or higher
> >
> > I am thinking about upgrading to 4.10 for the curved label support,
> > but I'll probably wait until it's out of beta.  Any other
> > suggestions on how I can get this working without upgrading?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jennifer
> >
> > At 01:40 PM 9/20/2006, you wrote:
> >> Jennifer,
> >>
> >> which version of Mapserver/Mapscript and GD are you using? I've
> >> myself experienced random crashes when trying to use antialiasing
> >> with Mapserver versions prior to 4.8. Besides, back then, even if
> >> the map rendered successfully, antialiasing didn't work.
> >>
> >> You should upgrade to the last stable version (4.8.4) at least.
> >> You might even want to try the new 4.10 beta.
>
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