[mapserver-users] PDF output, what about?

[William B. Killingsworth]

Maybe we could get some examples posted on the list.  I too would like to implement this very thing.

William B. Killingsworth
GIS Manager
Planning and Development
billk at coj.net

>>> "ANDREW WOOLEY" <AWOOLEY at mountainland.org> 05/23/01 09:18AM >>>
I am looking for this very solution.  The ToMo example is exactly what I would like to try on my site.  I am new to mapserver, but part of the reason I am doing any map serving is to allow some of my planners that are offsite print maps that they can customize.  Up to this point, I had resigned myself to the supposition that they would have to print a web map, but if a PDF or some other vector format is possible, I would really love to learn more.  I am still working on learning how mapserver works and if someone could send me some example code that shows how to create a PDF with mapserver on Linux instead of a bitmap of some sort, I would really appreciate it.  I am pretty familiar with PHP but am willing to learn anything.

Thanks very much,

Andrew

Andrew Wooley
GIS Operations Manager
Mountainland Association of Governments
Orem, UT

phone:  801.229.3844
fax:       801.229.3801
email:   awooley at mountainland.org 

>>> Andréas M. Winter <winter at freytagberndt.at> 05/22 7:43 AM >>>
PDF is fine, SVG would be better when dealing with vector graphics on
the web.

have al look at http://www.karto.ethz.ch/cgi-bin/projection.pl and
http://www.carto.net/papers/svg . first is a projection tool with pdf
AND svg output, second a paper about the benefits of svg for
cartography!

regards

andré

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Von: Carlo A. Bertelli [mailto:bertelli at charta.acme.com] 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 22. Mai 2001 12:45
An: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
Betreff: [mapserver-users] PDF output, what about?


Hello fellows,

GIF and PNG output are very good for mapserver, as the browser does not
ask
for a plug-in to see maps, but when you need printing, screen-resolution
pictures are not so good.

I think mapserver should use a PDF library to provide PDF output for
printing purposes. Say, when you have the map you need (thematic
mapping,
scale, and so on), you would click on a 'PDF' button and presto! you get
a
print-ready image you could enhance or incorporate in documents.

Ciao
	Carlo

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