<div>I've encountered the same problem. I can see wms layers in ArcGIS 9, but not print or export them, the rest of the map prints or exports, but nothing from wms is included.</div>
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<div>I'll have to try the low resolution suggestion and see if it works for me, I am surprised it works for you. For me it appears that ArcMap just doesnt give any time for the wms layers to regenerate when it regenerates everything for the print/export, but the reason given makes sense, I've seen wms layers fail to draw when requesting too large of an area.
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<div>I would have assumed that they would request smaller tiles to fill the map if the area/resolution is too high, but it is ESRI, so perhaps we'll see it in service pack 4.</div>
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<div>Cheers,<br>Ken Lord</div>
<div>Vancouver BC</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/30/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tyler Mitchell</b> <<a href="mailto:tylermitchell@shaw.ca">tylermitchell@shaw.ca</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">That is the right problem. You will find results vary depending on whose WMS<br>you are using. MapServer has a default image size limit of 2,000, I think.
<br>It can be overridden at MapServer compile time. I use another (IMS) service<br>that is limited to 1024. It will then be all related the output resolution<br>of the device or export file you select. In most cases, at a resolution of
<br>about 120DPI you might get an 8.5 x 11 page?? Good luck - it's thoroughly<br>irritating.<br><br>Tyler<br><br>On May 30, 2005 01:12 am, Bonnie Stewart wrote:<br>> Cheers Mike.<br>><br>> I've actually just found the answer in one of ESRI's user forums:
<br>> <a href="http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=132&f=1341&t=157673&mc=2">http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=132&f=1341&t=157673&mc=2</a><br>><br>> Just in case that link moves:<br>>
<br>> Subject Re: print wms service<br>> Author Graeme Browning<br>> Date May 10, 2005<br>> Message<br>><br>> Hi Bastian<br>><br>> I came across something similar trying to use Export Map to PDF on a WMS
<br>> layer that exported fine to JPG and was given this advice:<br>><br>> "My guess is the JPG files export without problems because they at drawing<br>> at a resolution of 96 dpi. This is the default resolution for JPG exports.
<br>> PDF exports, however, have a default resolution of 300 dpi. We've<br>> reproduced the draw failure here, it occurs in all formats when resolution<br>> is 300 dpi. The service layers are dropped in all export formats and during
<br>> printing. This confirms that the failure is occuring at draw time.<br>><br>> We looked further into the issue, and identified a limitaion on the<br>> server's end as the cause of the draw failure. When we peeked at the
<br>> server's response from the request sent during the 300 dpi export, it<br>> returned an exception message stating, "Image is wider than maximum allowed<br>> width of 2000". In order to draw the service layer at a resolution of 300
<br>> dpi, ArcMap had requested an image of width=3063 height=2619. The server<br>> raised the exception instead of returning the image.<br>><br>> While this layer draw failure is not caused by our export implementation,
<br>> we probably need to do a better job of providing feedback when exceptions<br>> occur during output. When pixel size limit errors occur on draw to the<br>> screen, ArcMap displays an information dialog to inform the user of the
<br>> exception. Output, however, does not provide any feedback mechanism. For<br>> now, the only workaround I can recommend is outputing your PDF file at a<br>> lower resolution, something close to 96 dpi. "
<br>><br>> In my case turning the resolution down to 150dpi achieved the result I was<br>> looking for - perhaps you can try doing the same.<br>><br>> - Graeme<br>><br>><br>> Graeme Browning<br>> ESRI Australia
<br>><br>> While this was talking about JPG files, the problem was similar with .emf<br>> files. I tried exporting to .emf at 200 dpi instead of the default 300, and<br>> the image came out OK. When you go to print, you can't specify the dpi
<br>> numerically, but there's a "Output Image Quality" slider from Fast -><br>> Normal -> Best. I changed it to 'Fast' (default is 'Best'), and it printed<br>> (and previewed - but you have to cancel out of the Print dialog in order to
<br>> preview) fine.<br>><br>> Hopefully this info saves somebody else from the puzzled few days I just<br>> had :)<br>><br>><br>> Cheers,<br>><br>><br>> Bonnie<br>><br>> ________________________________
<br>> Bonnie Stewart<br>> Research Officer<br>> Satellite Remote Sensing Services<br>> Department of Land Information<br>><br>> Email: <a href="mailto:Bonnie.Stewart@dli.wa.gov.au">Bonnie.Stewart@dli.wa.gov.au
</a><br>> Phone: 9387 0342<br>><br>> ________________________________<br>><br>> From: UMN MapServer Users List on behalf of Mike Davis<br>> Sent: Mon 30/05/2005 3:23 PM<br>> To: <a href="mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU">
MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU</a><br>> Subject: [Maybe SPAM] Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Printing WMS layers in<br>> ArcMap 9.0<br>><br>><br>><br>> Bonnie-<br>><br>> We use ArcMap extensively and it has become standard practice in our
<br>> GIS shop to export everything to .pdf before printing.<br>><br>> I am not sure about WMS bugs specifically, but the various other<br>> problems we have encountered while trying to print maps from the<br>
> modern (8.x 9.x) Arc programs are often solved by using .pdf.<br>><br>> good luck<br>><br>> -Mike<br>><br>> On 5/29/05, Bonnie Stewart <<a href="mailto:Bonnie.Stewart@dli.wa.gov.au">Bonnie.Stewart@dli.wa.gov.au
</a>> wrote:<br>> > Hi all,<br>> ><br>> > Technically, I suspect this question would be more appropriate for an<br>> > ArcGIS users forum, but from what I can find there's not a lot of help<br>> > out there on ArcGIS issues, so I was hoping someone else from the
<br>> > Mapserver-users community might be using ArcMap, and might have<br>> > encountered this issue before.<br>> ><br>> > I've got a couple of mapfiles up and running which are include various<br>
> > vector and raster layers, and mostly I'm accessing them via ArcMap 9.0.<br>> > However, I'm having trouble getting ArcMap to print my WMS images - print<br>> > preview always comes up blank, and if you go ahead and print a page
<br>> > anyway, it's blank.<br>> ><br>> > ArcMap's Help says that ArcMap converts maps to .emf (Windows Enhanced<br>> > Metafile) for printing, and suggests manually doing an export to .emf and<br>
> > then opening up the .emf to see where the problem lies. Well, I've done<br>> > this, and the .emf comes out entirely blank. To compare, I've tried<br>> > exporting to .bmp, and that comes out fine.<br>
> ><br>> > Is there a problem with exporting WMS images to .emf?<br>> > Is it possible to get ArcMap to print from a different export format?<br>> ><br>> > I have absolutely no GIS experience, so it's probably something very
<br>> > obvious, but all help would be much appreciated!<br>> ><br>> > (Would be happy to provide the mapfiles etc, but as I can print fine in<br>> > Internet Explorer, and ArcExplorer 4, I don't think it's an issue with
<br>> > the mapfiles..)<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > Cheers,<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > Bonnie<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > ________________________________<br>> > Bonnie Stewart
<br>> > Research Officer<br>> > Satellite Remote Sensing Services<br>> > Department of Land Information<br>> ><br>> > Email: <a href="mailto:Bonnie.Stewart@dli.wa.gov.au">Bonnie.Stewart@dli.wa.gov.au
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