Hi all,
The Dev team is reviewing and preparing for the 6.0 MapServer release
[1][2]. There are significant changes and new features in this
release. One of them is the rendering overhaul. The reasons behind is to
facilitate the long term maintenance and make sure that all the output
formats are in sync feature-wise.
Currently output drivers such as svg, pdf and flash lag in functionality
and supported features compare to the AGG/GD output.
As part of this re-factoring, the Cairo library [3] will be added
allowing SVG and PDF outputs to pass through this library. This would
deprecate the current support of native svg and pdf in MapServer.
The other renderer that is affected is the SWF (Flash) renderer: at this
point there is no effort to bring this output feature to the level of
other renderers. This means that there is a big chance that the SWF
support will not be part of the 6.0 release (unless someone wants to
fund it). Is this something that affects lots/some users?
best regards,
[1] http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/60ReleasePlan
[2] http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/60MigrationIssues
[3] http://cairographics.org/
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Assefa Yewondwossen
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Email: yass...@dmsolutions.ca
http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
Phone: (613) 565-5056 (ext 14)
Fax: (613) 565-0925
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