Thanks. I agree it's largely a Cairo issue at this point, but the decision to move to Cairo for SVG output has broken existing processes (for me, at least) with no workaround except downgrading -- unless that user-submitted Cairo patch works, which I will look into. I just wanted to see if anyone else was concerned about this and had any thoughts, but I will also try to talk to the Cairo group about it. However, the latest release of Cairo (1.10.2), came out nearly a year ago, so I'm not sure how actively it is currently being developed.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:13 AM, thomas bonfort <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.bonfort@gmail.com">thomas.bonfort@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I agree this would be a nice feature to have, but this concerns the<br>
cairo library. Once cairo supports this kind of text placement, we can<br>
have a look at how to support it inside mapserver.<br>
<br>
you might want to have a look at<br>
<a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2011-February/021777.html" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2011-February/021777.html</a><br>
for a cairo patch. I don't know if this can be picked up by mapserver<br>
without patching its cairo calls.<br>
<br>
regards,<br>
<br>
Thomas<br>
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-- <br><br>Jeff Williams<br>