Printing WMS layers in ArcMap 9.0

[Mike Davis]

Bonnie-

We use ArcMap extensively and it has become standard practice in our
GIS shop to export everything to .pdf before printing.

I am not sure about WMS bugs specifically, but the various other
problems we have encountered while trying to print maps from the
modern (8.x 9.x) Arc programs are often solved by using .pdf.

good luck

-Mike

On 5/29/05, Bonnie Stewart <Bonnie.Stewart at dli.wa.gov.au> wrote:
>  
> Hi all, 
>   
> Technically, I suspect this question would be more appropriate for an ArcGIS
> users forum, but from what I can find there's not a lot of help out there on
> ArcGIS issues, so I was hoping someone else from the Mapserver-users
> community might be using ArcMap, and might have encountered this issue
> before. 
>   
> I've got a couple of mapfiles up and running which are include various
> vector and raster layers, and mostly I'm accessing them via ArcMap 9.0.
> However, I'm having trouble getting ArcMap to print my WMS images - print
> preview always comes up blank, and if you go ahead and print a page anyway,
> it's blank. 
>   
> ArcMap's Help says that ArcMap converts maps to .emf (Windows Enhanced
> Metafile) for printing, and suggests manually doing an export to .emf and
> then opening up the .emf to see where the problem lies. Well, I've done
> this, and the .emf comes out entirely blank. To compare, I've tried
> exporting to .bmp, and that comes out fine. 
>   
> Is there a problem with exporting WMS images to .emf? 
> Is it possible to get ArcMap to print from a different export format? 
>   
> I have absolutely no GIS experience, so it's probably something very
> obvious, but all help would be much appreciated! 
>   
> (Would be happy to provide the mapfiles etc, but as I can print fine in
> Internet Explorer, and ArcExplorer 4, I don't think it's an issue with the
> mapfiles..) 
>   
>   
> Cheers, 
>   
>   
> Bonnie 
>   
>  
> ________________________________ 
> Bonnie Stewart 
> Research Officer 
> Satellite Remote Sensing Services 
> Department of Land Information 
>   
> Email: Bonnie.Stewart at dli.wa.gov.au 
> Phone: 9387 0342
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