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OUTPUTFORMAT — MapServer 7.0.1 documentation

    https://mapserver.org/uk/mapfile/outputformat.html
    If OUTPUTFORMAT sections declarations are not found in the map file, the following implicit declarations will be made. Only those for which support is compiled in will actually be available. The GeoTIFF depends on building with GDAL support, and the PDF and SVG depend on building with cairo support.

MapServer - OSGeo

    https://www.osgeo.org/projects/mapserver/
    MapServer is written in C and is widely known as one of the fastest mapping engines in the world. It is supported by a diverse group of organizations that fund enhancements and maintenance, and is administered within OSGeo by the MapServer Project Steering Committee.

MS RFC 73: Improved SVG symbols support — MapServer 7.0.1 ...

    https://www.mapserver.org/uk/development/rfc/ms-rfc-73.html
    Overview¶. The SVG format offers several advantages over existing mapserver symbol types but existing support is limited. We propose the implementation of complete support using the libsvg-cairo library, part of the cairo project.

Add svg symbols support (#3671) · mapserver/mapserver ...

    https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/commit/fc894740545bbb5b5c6da6539525f41b6c15e839
    Source code of the MapServer project. . Contribute to mapserver/mapserver development by creating an account on GitHub.

PDF Output — MapServer 7.0.1 documentation

    https://mapserver.org/uk/output/pdf.html
    PDF output support was added to MapServer 3.7. Previous versions of MapServer had support for pdf output using a utility program (shp2pdf) to output a pdf file given a MapServer mapfile. ... From version 6.0, PDF output is supported through Cairo. This is not reflected in the current documentation.

Add libRSVG as an alternative to libsvg-cairo by tbonfort ...

    https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues/4715
    While implementing svg symbology support, we made the choice to go with libsvg+libsvg-cairo for parsing and rendering of svg files, as those were the libraries that had the least dependencies. It turns out both those libraries are more or less abandonware, resulting in their absence from a number of distros, and an incompatibility with newer cairo apis.

Compiling on Unix — MapServer 7.0.1 documentation

    https://mapserver.org/uk/installation/unix.html
    SVG support can be enabled either through the unmaintained libsvg / libsvg-cairo combo, or through librsvg (the WITH_RSVG option) at the cost of more dependencies. Use librsvg if your distro provides a package for it, or fall back to libsvgcairo if the cost of compiling the librsvg dependencies is too important.

MapServer Migration Guide — MapServer 7.0.1 documentation

    https://mapserver.org/uk/MIGRATION_GUIDE.html
    MapServer 6.4 to 7.0 Migration ¶. The predefined field names for the union and cluster layers have been changed. Colons in the field names have been replaced with underscores to avoid producing invalid GetFeatureInfo results.

WMS Server — MapServer 7.0.1 documentation

    https://mapserver.org/uk/ogc/wms_server.html
    A WMS (or Web Map Server) allows for use of data from several different servers, and enables for the creation of a network of Map Servers from which clients can build customized maps. The following documentation is based on the Open Geospatial Consortium’s (OGC) Web Map Server Interfaces Implementation Specification v1.1.1.



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