[mapserver-users] AGG vs. GD: Label placement problems

[Daniel Morissette]

Doyon, Jean-Francois wrote:
> 
> Labels that are to the left of the point seem to be placed differently ... Look top-right ("Les Escoumins", "Saint Anne de Port Neuf", etc ...) for an example, though it happens all over the place I think.  Labels to the right of the point however seem ok.
> 
> Is this a bug? A design change?  Can anything be done from the mapfiel to mitigate this?
> 

A few days ago, ThomasB wrote on mapserver-dev that in AGG mode, "gd is 
still used [...] for the calculation of label sizes (thus some subtle 
discreptancies in label placement, mostly visible if using a label 
backgroundcolor)":

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-dev/2008-March/006868.html

Maybe that's what your running into? Hopefully Thomas will see this and 
comment.

Daniel
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