This should make the keyword ANTIALIAS in line styles work as expected and draw 
linestrings aliased if set to FALSE. But this works not only be adding another 
typedef. It also adds another member of that type and to use it the 
agg2Render*-methods need to selectively switch between the both according to 
the value set in the style. Currently only agg2RenderLine() does that. Others 
like agg2RenderPolygon() or agg2RenderGlyphsPath() for rendering polygons and 
text simply ignore that value and simply use the anti-aliasing one.

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Von: Rahkonen Jukka (MML) <jukka.rahko...@maanmittauslaitos.fi> 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. Mai 2021 15:49
An: Eichner, Andreas - SID <andreas.eich...@sid.sachsen.de>; Richard Greenwood 
<richard.greenw...@gmail.com>; mapserver <mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org>
Betreff: Re: [mapserver-users] anti-aliasing (was differing image size with 
different mapserver versions)

Hi,

Can someone say if the issue is already fixed or not by  
https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/6225/files

that adds:
typedef mapserver::renderer_scanline_bin_solid<renderer_base> 
renderer_scanline_aliased;

Is this enough for turning antialiasing off and making png files with lots of 
linework smaller? Should/could there be something more for polygons which are 
rendered with plain fill without borderlines?

-Jukka Rahkonen-

-----Alkuperäinen viesti-----
Lähettäjä: mapserver-users <mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> Puolesta 
Eichner, Andreas - SID
Lähetetty: keskiviikko 19. toukokuuta 2021 14.39
Vastaanottaja: Richard Greenwood <richard.greenw...@gmail.com>; mapserver 
<mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org>
Aihe: Re: [mapserver-users] anti-aliasing (was differing image size with 
different mapserver versions)

What AGG does with it's sub-pixel accuracy can be viewed as computing the 
contribution of the pixels of a virtually larger image to the pixels of the 
final image. It uses a gamma function to translate the amount of virtual pixels 
into an amount of visual impact on the final pixel - both expressed as a value 
in the range 0..1. AGG's default is a linear function that proportionally maps 
the range 0..1 onto 0..1 (i.e. y=x). MapServer (where applied) uses a linear 
gamma function that proportionally maps the range 0..gamma onto 0..1. All this 
results in intermediate color values giving a smoother and visually improved 
result as in this example: 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antialiasing.png#/media/Datei:Antialiasing.png

As PNG uses lossless compression these additional information enlarges the 
resulting files. So to reduce the size of your map image files it's best to 
turn anti-aliasing off. One way is to compile a special version with modified 
typedefs in mapagg.cpp to turn AA off. With Cairo you could use the method 
cairo_set_antialias(cairo_t*, CAIRO_ANTIALIAS_NONE) to switch it off. But then 
you would loose paletted image and compression control.

With the modified AGG you should still apply the other suggestions with reduced 
palette and maximum compression.

HTH


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: mapserver-users <mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> Im Auftrag von 
Richard Greenwood
Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. Mai 2021 18:50
An: mapserver <mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org>
Betreff: [mapserver-users] anti-aliasing (was differing image size with 
different mapserver versions)

Thanks to several helpful replies to my previous thread I know that the 
increased image size between MapServer 6 with the GD driver and MapServer 7 
with the AGG driver is due to differences in anti-aliasing (and lack of) in the 
two drivers. (AGG features anti-aliasing and sub-pixel resolution 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Grain_Geometry> ).

Gamma setting from 0-1 affects the size of a filled polygon layer by a factor 
of almost 3x. But gamma has no effect on text, lines, and polygon outlines. So 
images comprised of these types of features are approximately 2x larger with 
the AGG/PNG8 driver than with the GD/GIF driver. 

Where else should I be looking to reduce my images sizes? I serve rural areas 
with poor internet so in my case, smaller image sizes are more important than 
higher quality images.

Thanks,
Rich

-- 

Richard W. Greenwood, PLS
www.greenwoodmap.com <http://www.greenwoodmap.com> 
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