[mapserver-users] Re: Font rendering in MapServer 6.0

[Brad Posthumus]

thomas bonfort wrote:
> 
> We've kept the GD renderer in 6.0 for some marginal use cases, but the
> preferred way is to switch to AGG rendering (which is compiled in by
> default): you can use the builtin png8 imagetype (mimetype: image/png;
> mode=8bit) which does a quantization step if you need a 256 color
> paletted image.
> 

Thanks Thomas, your suggestion worked. Here's the updated OUTPUTFORMAT
section that fixed the problem:

  OUTPUTFORMAT
    NAME png8
    DRIVER "AGG/PNG8"
    MIMETYPE "image/png; mode=8bit"
    IMAGEMODE RGB
    FORMATOPTION "INTERLACE=OFF"
    EXTENSION png
    TRANSPARENT ON
  END
 

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