[mapserver-users] Polygon outline not drawn in PDF output if polygon is not filled

[Anzel, Phil - Fort Collins, CO]

Hi, Assefa,

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.

FWIW it appears that the same problem (no outlines shown when using an unfilled polygon) impacts SVG output as well.

There is another problem: layer "OPACITY" appears to have no effect. Is that a defect as well?

I'll work my way up to the Cairo version; thanks for the suggestion.

- Phil

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From: Yewondwossen Assefa [mailto:yassefa at dmsolutions.ca] 
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 12:12 PM
To: Anzel, Phil - Fort Collins, CO
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Polygon outline not drawn in PDF output if polygon is not filled

Hi There,

The first issue with the color/fill-color seems to be a defect.
  This second issue with the Width parameter is due to the fact that 
the  parameter is not supported in the PDF driver.

The intention is to depreciate the current PDF support and use the Cairo 
PDF driver for the 6.0 release [1]. At that point we should have support 
for things like width, color/fill-color, ... be consistent between all 
output drivers. You could maybe try using MapServer from svn and try the 
Cairo support and see if that solves your immediate needs.

regards,


[1] http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/60ReleasePlan

> Case 1: Unfilled polygon, PDF output: As written above, the PDF output is empty. This is the problem case.
>
> Case 2: Filled polygon, PDF output: If the "#COLOR" line is uncommented, the green-filled polygon, complete with red outline, is drawn.
>
> Case 3: Unfilled polygon, PNG output: If I switch to PNG output (by uncommenting the OUTPUTFORMAT for PNG and commenting-out the PDF one) and revert to "#COLOR" (thereby disabling polygon fill), the unfilled red outline is drawn in the PNG output.
>
> Case 4: Filled polygon, PNG output: With PNG output and fill COLOR enabled, the filled green polygon with red outline is drawn to the PNG output.
>
> Is this a defect? Could you suggest a work-around for unfilled polygon PDF output?
>    

This seems to be a defect
> A secondary observation: Using a filled polygon for PDF, use of a "WIDTH" parameter appears to have no effect upon the width of the outline.
>
>    

> I'm using MapServer version 5.6.3 (MS4W distribution) under Windows XP Pro 2002 SP3. The problem was demonstrated with use of the "drawmap.exe" command-line utility.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> - Phil Anzel
>
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