Style Preview pane

This panel can be used to preview SLD style conversions and save the results to disk (licensed users only).

GeoCat Bridge currently only publishes map data to GeoServer and therefore converts to SLD. GeoServer internally stores and uses SLD to render layer symbology. Despite the more "human-friendly" formats like GeoCSS, YSLD and so on, traditional SLD offers the best symbology representation in GeoServer. However, some GeoServer-specific SLD extensions may be applied, also known as Vendor Options.

To preview how Bridge will translate the symbology, you can click on a layer in the Table of Contents (TOC) of the active map while having the Style Preview pane open.

This will render a preview of the SLD XML structure. GeoCat Bridge may convert certain markers to SVG or PNG. Note that image references are replaced by dummy file names (e.g. symbol.svg) in the preview for performance reasons.

If you wish to view the marker images, you can save the SLD (and auxiliary files like PNG's or SVG's) to disk using the Save As... button in the top-right corner (see image above). In that case, the actual names of the image files will be included in the SLD. However, this functionality is only available to licensed users.

Tip

If the layer is unsupported, you will not see any SLD output.
If the layer is supported, but there are issues with the SLD conversion, these will be listed on the Warnings tab.
You can click on the icon to show them.

For more information about supported styles, please read the Symbology chapter.