Mercurial > mxd2map
diff doku/source/restrictions.txt @ 250:d10fd4de02aa
Documented a bunch of new features
* Support of picture-marker symbol (issue343)
* Support for ArcGIS named groups (issue381)
* GLOBAL and Layer extents and SRS (issue 379)
| author | Stephan Holl <stephan.holl@intevation.de> |
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| date | Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:15:34 +0200 |
| parents | df533a03ad9f |
| children | 4dc2b9aa3c57 |
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--- a/doku/source/restrictions.txt Wed Aug 10 15:00:40 2011 +0200 +++ b/doku/source/restrictions.txt Fri Aug 12 09:15:34 2011 +0200 @@ -1,11 +1,14 @@ -.. index:: restrictions, label, Raster, SDE, workaround, picture-symols +.. index:: restrictions, label, Raster, ArcSDE, SDE, workaround, picture-symols, windows, ArcEngine .. _restriction-label: ------------ Restrictions ------------ -Currently there are some restrictions in the usage of the converter: +Currently there are some restrictions in the usage of the converter. One +of the main restrictions is the fact that the converter currently only +runs on Windows. This is due to the fact that the needed ArcEngine did +never reliably work on Linux. This was tested with ArcEngine 10.0. Supported datasources: @@ -36,17 +39,12 @@ write the appropriate symbols with the appropiate gap to the mapfile. * The converter sets the width to 1 for line symbols that have a width - smaller than 1. Outlines with a width smaller than 1 are drawn in the fill - color of the ploygon and the width is set to 1. + smaller than 1. .. tip:: To avoid lines and line colors (specially outlines) to be handled by the converter, use integer numbers for line width only. - * Picture symbols are not supported by the converter since ArcGIS embedds - the image directly into the MXDfile. This might be supported in the - near future. - * In ArcGIS maps default symbols can be defined as fallback within classifications. Since MapServer does not support such fallback symbols or styles within classifications the converter does not read these default symbols. @@ -56,9 +54,6 @@ Layer support: - * Group-layers are represented as WMS Named Layers (not requestable via - GetMap-Request). WMS-clients can recognize them as - 'organisation-layers'. * Expressions for label are parsed by an internal parser in ArcGIS. The interpretation of this expressions is very limited though. Therefore label expressions may not contain any special functions or must fit