To clarify GD is not being removed. It's still alive and kicking. It's just more isolated now. That is, AGG doesn't need GD in 6.0 like it has in the past. AGG, GD, Cairo all exist as rendering peers. We have stripped back the GD functionality to be just 8-bit output though. That's what it's good for.
So, rendering issues with GD are and will be of concern. You might try a 6.0 build and see if that helps at all. Much of the rendering behavior is much more consistent across renderers thanks to Thomas' work. Steve ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gregor at HostGIS [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10:31 PM To: Stephen Woodbridge Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Re: GD rendering: polygons vs lines > A while back someone, maybe Thomas Bonfort, did some performance tests > comparing GD to AGG, and if I recall AGG was only slightly slower and in > at least a couple of cases it was faster the GD. In our case, GD renders in 1 second and AGG in 3 in these few tests cases we're concerned with. We're thus allowing a choice between "fast mode" and "good quality mode" > Also I should point out that the GD renderer is getting removed > So I'm not sure there is much interest in chasing issue Well, that's good to know. Thanks for the heads-up. I'll wait and see if someone comes up with any ideas before I give up entirely. -- HostGIS, Open Source solutions for the global GIS community Greg Allensworth - SysAdmin, Programmer, GIS Person, Security Network+ Server+ A+ Security+ Linux+ PHP PostgreSQL MySQL DHTML/JavaScript/AJAX "No one cares if you can back up — only if you can recover." _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
