On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Ryan Kaldari kaldari@gmail.com wrote:
I'm currently working on some tools to allow web-based creation of various types of maps for people that aren't comfortable editing SVG files. These tools will allow users to select a base map, choose which territories they want to shade in and how to shade them, generate an SVG file, and then push it to Commons. I have pretty much everything working except I would like to be able to show the user a PNG preview of their map before it is pushed to Commons. I tried using ImageMagick, but it gives horrible results. Has anyone else dealt with this problem on the toolserver?
Wikimedia uses rsvg, so that would be your best choice -- that way your PNG has a fairly good chance of actually looking the same as Wikimedia's rasterization. rsvg is installed on nightshade, and since it's installed on willow and wolfsbane I assume it's installed on all the Solaris servers as well.