[Geomoose-users] GeoMoose Printing

[Eli Adam]

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Jim Klassen <klassen.js at gmail.com> wrote:
> The thought is it would use OpenLayers for the rendering so I suspect it would support anything OpenLayers supports including markups.  Again, this is still in the idea formation/feasibility testing stage so I can't say anything for certain.
>
> On Oct 7, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Brian Fischer wrote:
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>> This would be a great addition.  Would it support the markups?  I know that is an important feature to many users.

Improved printing is one of the items on the Roadmap so this would be great.


>> -----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 1:56 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.

Would it also have some support for template/surrounding items (title,
orientation, date, scale, logo, disclaimer, etc)?

Would client side with no server side mean html output only?  (plus
any pdf 'printing' capabilities your computer/browser might have?)

Best Regards, Eli

>>
>> Before spending a lot of time trying to implement this, I made a simple example to see how the different browsers would react.
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>> http://www.geomoose.org/10inprint/
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>> It seems not all browsers are quite up to spec though.
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>> 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).
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>> Thoughts? Ideas?
>>
>> Jim
>>