[mapguide-users] Save the maps in a vectorized format like in a pdf file, for later viewing or printing ?

[Nick Sebastyan]

Thanks for the response Kenneth Skovhede but actually I have found a way of generating a pdf from a dwf with the same picture quality.
If someone will need this functionality this is how i do it :

1.Using the functionality of the Plot as DWF task from the samples I generate the dwf file with the current state of the map.

2. I save the generated dwf file on the server in a temporary folder.

3.Install Autodesk Design Review (to interpret the dwf files) and PDFCreator (to generate the pdf file)(free software) on the server.

4.In PDFCreator open the options tab and mark the following  : 
   General Settings -->  No confirm message switching PDFCreator temporarily as default printer
   Auto-save : Use Auto-save (this is required if you want to use PDFCreator from command line and don't want any messages to pop out)
  [ For other functionality needs please feel free to read the documentation of PDFCreator or use something similiar to PDFCreator ]

5.Using PDFCreator  in command line it can generate from the dwf file a pdf file containing the map in vector format.
   The command I use is : path to PDFCreator.exe /PF"path to dwf file" /NoStart 
   (This is possible because PDFCreator switches temporarily as default printer and from the PDFCreator documentation the PF parameter does : 
    "Print a file with the standard program linking with the extension of the file. In general, this option is useful in connection with Auto-Save mode." )

That is all.



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From: "Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S" <ks at geograf.dk>
To: MapGuide Users Mail List <mapguide-users at lists.osgeo.org>
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 10:31:08 AM
Subject: Re: [mapguide-users] Save the maps in a vectorized format like in a pdf file, for later viewing or printing ?

No, unfortunately.

Currently the DWF format is the only supported vector format.


Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S


Nick Sebastyan skrev: 
Hi,
>
>It is possible to save the maps in a vectorized format like in a pdf file, for later viewing or printing ?
>Currently I have copied the functionality of the PlotAsDwf task from the mapguide samples to be able to generate from the ajax viewer the same functionality and quality of the maps as the dwf viewer.
>The problem is that this requires a dwf viewer to be installed on the client side and that is not an option anymore. 
>I want to be able to print the maps from the ajax viewer but I need the quality of the picture that dwf viewer provides.
>
>Thanks.
>
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