<DIV>Excellent Paul, thanks for joining in! If you do post your PDF spec, please link it to the discussion page as well. That sure helps fill in some needs. Hope to hear more comments from others as they review it.</DIV>
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<DIV>Tyler<BR><BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: Landon Blake <lblake@ksninc.com><BR>Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 9:03 am<BR>Subject: RE: [Carto] intro<BR>To: Paul Spencer <pagameba@gmail.com>, carto@lists.osgeo.org<BR><BR>> I added the link for the MapFish YAML web page to a new wiki section<BR>> named "Links" on the OSGeo Cartographic Engine Discussion wiki page:<BR>> <BR>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Cartographic_Engine_Discussion<BR>> <BR>> Landon<BR>> Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268<BR>> Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> -----Original Message-----<BR>> From: carto-bounces@lists.osgeo.org<BR>> [mailto:carto-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paul Spencer<BR>> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 8:20 AM<BR>> To: carto@lists.osgeo.org<BR>> Subject: [Carto] intro<BR>> <BR>> Hi, just joining the list to participate in the discussions and<BR>> hopefully help in any way that I can. From reviewing the <BR>> list archives,<BR>> I think most people already know me but for the record I am CTO <BR>> at DM<BR>> Solutions Group, a member of OSGeo IncCom, and participant in a number<BR>> of open source web mapping projects (OpenLayers, Fusion, ka-Map,<BR>> Chameleon and a couple of non-GIS projects).<BR>> <BR>> My primary interest is to participate in discussions around<BR>> specifications of the various components, more specifically on the<BR>> layout side of things.<BR>> <BR>> We (DMSG) have built an in-house PDF generating system written <BR>> in PHP<BR>> using FPDF for PDF generation and MapServer to actually render <BR>> the maps.<BR>> We have chosen, for the moment, to render the map as a raster <BR>> and embed<BR>> it in the PDF because the current state of the art for rendering <BR>> to PDF<BR>> using MapServer is behind the raster output - I'm hopeful that <BR>> Cairo may<BR>> level the playing field in this respect, but in the mean time we are<BR>> sticking with embedding an image. We use MapServer's new <BR>> resolutionsettings to create a larger (in pixel) image that is <BR>> positioned within a<BR>> specific physical space in the PDF to produce a higher <BR>> resolution image,<BR>> 300 dpi seems to be the sweet spot for most printers, higher <BR>> resolutiondoesn't add a lot of visible value.<BR>> <BR>> What I think may be of interest to this group is the <BR>> specification of<BR>> the layout of the PDF document, which is completely independent and<BR>> could be used as the basis for any technical <BR>> implementation. Its not<BR>> perfectly suited to all the goals of this project, but it may <BR>> serve as a<BR>> good starting point for discussions. Our layout <BR>> specification is<BR>> defined using the ini file syntax, but it uses similar concepts <BR>> as the<BR>> the MapFish YAML configuration file. Given that these were <BR>> developedindependently, it may be a good indication that these <BR>> are moderately<BR>> good abstractions for defining a layout specification.<BR>> <BR>> If you are interested, I can post a wiki page and send along a more<BR>> detailed description of our layout specification - or perhaps we could<BR>> start from the MapFish YAML page<BR>> (http://trac.mapfish.org/trac/mapfish/wiki/PrintModuleServer)<BR>> <BR>> Cheers<BR>> <BR>> Paul<BR>> <BR>> __________________________________________<BR>> <BR>> Paul Spencer<BR>> Chief Technology Officer<BR>> DM Solutions Group Inc<BR>> http://www.dmsolutions.ca/<BR>> http://research.dmsolutions.ca/<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Carto mailing list<BR>> Carto@lists.osgeo.org<BR>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/carto<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Warning:<BR>> Information provided via electronic media is not guaranteed <BR>> against defects including translation and transmission errors. <BR>> If the reader is not the intended recipient, you are hereby <BR>> notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this <BR>> communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this <BR>> information in error, please notify the sender immediately.<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Carto mailing list<BR>> Carto@lists.osgeo.org<BR>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/carto<BR>> </DIV>