[mapserver-users] insert png image in svg output

[Barend Kobben]

> so there is no way to have in output an svg file with all the layer ? because
> if I understood Mapserver don't support svg file in input and according to the
> svg spec a png file is only linked by a svg file.

You can put a PNG inline inside SVG, but I do not see how that would help
you. I think the problem is that you use a Template, where the SVG gets
inserted into the HTML as an IMG object. Although I think it works sometimes
in some User Agents, that is not the correct way. Remember that an SVG
'picture' is a piece of XML to be interpreted, not a ratser image you can
just render directly to screen. So, if used inside (X)HTML it should be
embedded properly, eg. like:

<object data="sample.svgz" type="image/svg+xml"
        width="400" height="300">
    <embed src="sample.svgz" type="image/svg+xml"
            width="400" height="300" />
</object>

See http://wiki.svg.org/SVG_and_HTML for more possibilities and explanation.


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