[Geomoose-users] GeoMoose Printing

[Jim Klassen]

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.
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> Brian Fischer, CFM
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> From: geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klassen
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> Subject: [Geomoose-users] GeoMoose Printing
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> 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.
> 
> 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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