[mapserver-users] Large scale PDF output on Windows

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 01:30:12PM +0200, Kristian Thy wrote:
> I'm trying to generate pdf output from mapserver to be printed in A3
> format at 600 dpi (which is not negotiable). We're currently using the
> 5.0.2 binary from ms4w, which has a limitation of 2048 px square. I have
> calculated I need 9921 by 7015 px output.
> 
> Before I prostrate myself before the altar and make sacrifices to the
> gods of compiling-mapserver-on-windows, can anybody confirm that output
> of this size is indeed possible? The only thing I can find through
> Google is this post from Ed McNierney - four and a half years old:

You don't need to recompile anymore. You can change this in a mapfile
setting. (I don't know what it is, I'm sure that someone else will tell
you: but wanted to make sure you got stopped before you started
compiling.) 

And yes, output of that size is possible. I believe that when I was
talking to pagameba, he was talking about rendering on the order of 50
x 50 256 px tiles -- about 10000 by 10000 or more. At that point, you
may be limited by memory limits of some kind, depending on your
rendering rules... but someone else can comment on that as well.



> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/data2/wilma/mapserver-users/0309/msg00417.html
> 
> \\kristian
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