I've already tried with that solution but the problem is how to know how much buffer I need. Suppose that i have a very long label that cover 10 tiles, I have to generate tiles with a buffer of the size of 10 tiles to
get my text correctly. But how can I know what my label text will be long?
Now I'm going in the direction of vector outputs hoping that they support all my needs (symbols and labels).

Daniele

Il 30.11.2011 16:03, Adam Eskreis ha scritto:
You can still buffer even if you draw in a tile based manner. Suppose your buffer is 100 pixels and tile size is 256x256. Just pull 100 pixels more in each direction than you need, and then when you weave your tiles together, only draw from 100,100 to 356,356 and cut out the rest. See what I mean?


On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Daniele Debernardi <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    Tiling the map is a good idea, but the problem is the symbology
    and label that are drawn between 2 tiles,
    with a buffer can't be possible why there is no possibility to
    know how the symbol or text will be.

    I'm trying to configure php mapscript to output directly in pdf
    with CAIRO but with no success.

    MapServer version 6.1-dev OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG
    SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=AGG SUPPORTS=CAIRO SUPPORTS=FREETYPE
    SUPPORTS=ICONV SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT
    SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=GEOS INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR
    INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE

    setting output format driver CAIRO/PDF mimetype application/x-pdf
    imagemode RGB and extension pdf i get this error:

    [MapServer Error]: msSaveRasterBuffer(): unsupported image format

    Failed writing image to /tmp/4ed5e30c_4d9_0.pdf

    In php i have the support of pdflib lite enabled (PDFlib GmbH
    Version 7.0.5)

    Is there something particular in the configuration that I'm
    missing to get pdf output work correctly?

    Thanks in advance

    Daniele



    Il 29.11.2011 19:00, Adam Eskreis ha scritto:
    Why don't you try requesting the images in a tile-based manner so
    that the requests are managable, and then weave them together in
    your software?  Mapserver isn't intended to pull in tiles that
    big.  You should be able to pull in 2048x2048 tiles just fine.

    -Adam

    On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Stephen Woodbridge
    <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

        On 11/29/2011 10:02 AM, Daniele Debernardi wrote:

            The solution is not pumping up the memory limit of the
            server, because
            if i get 2 request at the same time
            I still have memory problem.


        It sounds like you have not adequately sized the server for
        the tasks you are asking it to perform. Mapserver is designed
        for performance so that it can handle requests quickly and
        free up the memory it is using for the next request. If you
        start swapping or paging data to disk that slows down all
        processes and can overwhelm the system with too many slow
        requests that are all consuming memory and not exiting as
        fast as new requests are coming in.

        If you are making an enhancement request for say making
        mapserver use less memory and temporary disk files or swap
        space at the cost of performance, then you should add a
        ticket to the tracking system. This is not a short term
        solution.


            Which is the best way (output format) to generate high
            resolution map
            images with full symbology support?


        I defer to Thomas on this one. But he has already mentioned
        that probably doing something like direct pdf output and
        converting any pixmap symbols into scalable symbols is the
        best way to go.

        -Steve W


            Il 29.11.2011 15:49, Stephen Woodbridge ha scritto:

                On 11/29/2011 3:20 AM, Daniele Debernardi wrote:

                    Hi,
                    with mapserver trunk version (but i think with
                    others too) I have to
                    generate very big map to be imported in a pdf file.
                    I use php mapscript to generate maps with 300 dpi
                    for an A1/A0 pdf page
                    or bigger.
                    This mean that the map has dimensions like
                    15000x25000 pxl and when I
                    call the MapObj->draw method i get this error:

                    PHP Warning: mapObj::draw(): [MapServer Error]:
                    agg2CreateImage():
                    mapagg.cpp: 708: Out of memory allocating
                    1550851152 bytes.

                    Map server is configured with the AGG/PNG driver
                    with imagemode RGBA.

                    Is it normal that need so much memory to generate
                    the image?


                Just for the image buffer you need 15000x25000x4
                pixels = 1500,000,000
                and AGG might actually allocate a slight larger image
                buffer so it
                does not create edge effects while antialiasing
                objects close to the
                edges. So the above request does not seem unreasonable.

                    I already tryied the php ini_set memory_limit but
                    with a limit of 2048M
                    i still have some problem with memory.


                Try setting the limit a little higher like to
                2564-3072M can see if
                your memory problems go away. Of course this assumes
                you have a system
                with a lot of memory.

                -Steve W

                    I checked other possible outputs but generating
                    maps in pdf through
                    Cairo driver but doc says that polygons filled
                    with symbols are not
                    supported, and for that reason I cant use it.
                    SVG output has some limitations too like line
                    drawn without symbols or
                    pixmap symbols not supported.

                    Is there a better way to generate so big map
                    images and imported in a
                    pdf file?

                    Hope you guys can help me.

                    Daniele
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