Hi, You can also send WMS requests with wget instead of a browser, save the result image directly into a file and use gdalinfo for checking the properties.
-Jukka Rahkonen- Brad Posthumus wrote: > The GetMap request was using: > format=image/png > ...instead of > format=image/png; mode=8bit > Now I'm getting paletted 8-bit images instead of 24-bit RGB's. >> Thomas Bonfort wrote: >> >> I suspect it's the copying from Firefox, your outputformat is correct (and >> superfluous, the built-in png8 imagetype does the same) >> > Thanks for the response. You're right about the copying. It seems most image > viewers will assume PNGs are RGB when copying an image from a browser. I had > to use PIL in Python to show which WMS output images were 8-bit (mode = 'P') > and 24-bit (mode='RGB'). > Also, I think we still need the OUTPUTFORMAT section in our mapfiles since > we're trying to use RGBA instead of RGB, which the built-in png8 output > format uses. -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/MapServer-6-WMS-output-to-8-bit-PNG-tp6626959p6627769.html Sent from the Mapserver - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ 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
