[Geomoose-users] GeoMoose Printing

[Jim Klassen]

Hmm... it looks like Safari prints differently with headers on vs. off.

On Sep 27, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:

> Worked in FF, Chrome and IE (needed to make a setting change in IE to have it NOT fit the image and print at a specified 100% scale)
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> All came in at 10".  
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> Safari printed two pages.  The one with the line looks like it's being fit to the page (making a version that was twice as long would comfirm this) .  I can't find any sort of settings for Printing in Safari though, even tried going directly to the printers,  nada.
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> Bobb
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:geomoose-
>>> users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klassen
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 1:57 PM
>>> To: geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org List
>>> Subject: [Geomoose-users] GeoMoose Printing
>>> 
>>> I've been playing around a bit with the idea of printing using
>>> HTML5/CSS3 instead of needing a server side component.  My idea
>>> is a print tool would create a new window with a new OpenLayers
>>> map in some HTML/CSS template that would be simplified and scaled
>>> using real units ("in", "cm", etc.) instead of relative units
>>> ("em", "px").  I think this could forcing the map width and
>>> height in pixels to be ~ 300 dpi on the printed page.
>>> 
>>> Before spendignI made a simple example to see how the different
>>> browsers react before spending a lot of time trying to implement
>>> this.
>>> 
>>> http://www.geomoose.org/10inprint/
>>> 
>>> It seems not all browsers are quite up to spec though.
>>> 
>>> Page Margins: Chrome works, Safari/Firefox ignore it.
>>> Image DPI: Chrome, Safari, Firefox work (i.e. it will actually
>>> print at 300dpi instead of scaling the 96dpi screen render)
>>> Layout: All three seem to honor the
>>> layout/stacking/positioning/transparency.
>>> Media: All three honor selecting a stylesheet for printing.
>>> 
>>> Firefox and Chrome print to scale (10" is actually 10") Safari is
>>> printing large (which is funny because this is usually the one
>>> point Apple is anal about).
>>> 
>>> Thoughts? Ideas?
>>> 
>>> Jim
>>> 
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