[mapserver-users] Layer rendering performance problem

[Jan Hartmann]

About the GD library: the dowload site (http://www.boutell.com/gd/) is 
down, and there is no indication how long this will be so. There is a 
link to the code repository, but no standard tar-file is to be found 
there. Since MapServer cannot be compiled without GD, would it make 
sense to provide a tarball on mapserver.org?

Jan

On 05/11/11 22:39, Lime, Steve D (DNR) wrote:
> I believe GD had its own font caching built in or it used some Freetype constructs. I never wrote it...
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of thomas bonfort
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:10 AM
> To: Jon-Paul Dobson
> Cc: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Layer rendering performance problem
>
> what mapserver version and renderer/driver are you using?
>
> AGG should'nt be accessing the font file unless a new character is
> encountered. For GD I don't know.
>
> --
> thomas
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 18:00, Jon-Paul Dobson<jpdobson40 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Thanks guys. I will give this ago. Any ideas about poor performance when
>> using a true type font? Why does MapServer need to load the .ttf file each
>> time to draw a symbol. Surely the ttf file should be cached?
>>
>> Rgards,
>> Jon-Paul.
>>
>> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Jeff McKenna
>> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>  wrote:
>>> On 11-05-11 12:47 PM, Jon-Paul Dobson wrote:
>>>> Hi Jukka,
>>>> Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. No I haven't tried this. How
>>>> is this done and what is the benefit? Aren't Shape files already indexed?
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Jon-Paul.
>>> Jukka is right, always make sure to run the shptree commandline utility on
>>> all of your ESRI shapefiles before using them in MapServer
>>> (http://mapserver.org/utilities/shptree.html).  You'll see huge speed
>>> differences.
>>>
>>> -jeff
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jeff McKenna
>>> MapServer Consulting and Training Services
>>> http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/
>>>
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