[OSM-dev] Mapnik Q: enhance resolution?

[Artem Pavlenko]

On 9 Mar 2008, at 09:31, Tom Hughes wrote:

> In message <47D3A887.7090700 at remote.org>
>           Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>
>>     I have Mapnik set up and it's generating the image I want fine.
>> However, I would now like to double the resolution without any  
>> change in
>> the image, i.e. I want the bitmap to look exactly the same in print,
>> just with smoother fonts etc.
>
> Why not use the cairo backend instead of the agg backend. Then you
> can render to SVG or PDF and scale it to whatever size you like and
> get a smooth result.

Yes, cairo_renderer is great for print ready maps.
>
> The only problem will be icons (pubs, churchs, etc) which are bitmap
> sources and hence will get blocky if you scale them too much.
>

Vector based symbols are on my TODO list. Should we aim to support  
SVG  (ie. tiny profile) ? Or something simpler like filled/stroked  
paths would suffice ?

Main problem with cairo - it is not reflected in Python bindings, yet.

Should we have something like :

agg = agg_renderer(m, im)
agg.render()


cairo = cairo_renderer(m,im)
cairo.render()

Ideas?

> -- 
> Tom Hughes (tom at compton.nu)
> http://www.compton.nu/
>

Cheers
Artem


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