[Geomoose-users] GeoMoose Printing

[Kroot, Christopher]

Have you thought about printing  search results with the map view?

Christopher Kroot
Enterprise GIS Analyst, Maine Office of GIS
State of Maine, Office of Information Technology
State House Station 174
264 Civic Center Drive
Augusta, Maine 04333-0174
christopher.kroot at maine.gov 
207-592-0162


-----Original Message-----
From: geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Eli Adam
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 3:02 PM
To: Jim Klassen
Cc: geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org List
Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] GeoMoose Printing

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:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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