<div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I've spent a few hours exploring the codebase while I was thinking about building a web service to generate (vectorial) PDF for a map.</div><div><br></div><div>IMHO this would be a must, expecially now that QGIS has entered in the web service arena with qgis-mapserver.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The idea is to build a qgis-mapserver companion which would take care of building a PDF representation of the map using the configured project(s) and a print template.</div><div><br></div><div>The idea is that the user can configure the WMS and print template from QGIS GUI, and have a WMS + PDF-print service running with a few clicks.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The obvious road for such a service is qgis-mapserver (read layers, map extent etc. from request like WMS does), + qgis-print-composer (read the template name, the resolutions and paper format from request) but it seems like the print-composer cannot work without a GUI, is this correct ?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Of course with a lot of efforts, this program could be built with python-qgis bindings, but why can't we re-use the existing code? Most of the functionality is already available in mapserver and printcomposer.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I would really like to hear your opinion on this topic</div><br>-- <br>Alessandro Pasotti<br>w3: <a href="http://www.itopen.it">www.itopen.it</a><br>