[mapserver-users] High resolution printing

[Rob McCulley]

I'm working on the same thing right now.  The first option is to
generate a high resolution raster image from mapserver and then user
reportlab to put that into a .pdf.  The problem with this is the file
size of the resulting .pdf is large, and the vectors still don't look as
good as they could.

What I've been working on now is using reportlab and svglib.  I create a
high resolution .jpg of just the raster layers from mapserver, and then
I create an .svg file of the vector layers.  I use svglib to convert the
.svg file into a reportlab graphics object, and draw that on top of the
raster into a .pdf document.  The file size is still large, but the
vectors look much better.  The problem I'm having now is that not all of
mapservers labeling options are available to svg output (namely, you
can't wrap labels).

http://www.reportlab.org/
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/svglib/0.6.0


Rob McCulley
GIS Coordinator
County of Vermilion River


-----Original Message-----
From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Brent
Fraser
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 3:16 PM
To: Milo van der Linden
Cc: mapserver-users
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] High resolution printing

Milo,

	It will likely involve several changes to Mapserver's mappdf.c
(see
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2008-April/055593.html)
.  

Brent Fraser

Milo van der Linden wrote:
> Hello list!
> 
> I have been searching the web for tips and tricks, but basically what
I 
> need is a method or procedure or (commercial) tool that can enhance my

> mapserver installation to enable high resolution printing.
> 
> What I am looking for is the best practice to:
> 
> - Add a button to our website
> - Let the button start a script or program that processes the active 
> layers in the map view based upon the current extent
> - Generate a mixture of high-res images and optionally svg or alike
for 
> linework
> - combine the works in a pdf
> - present the pdf for download to the user
> 
> I would also like to know if there are any commercial, mapserver
based, 
> solutions for this. I am also willing to hire an expert to achieve
this.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Milo van der Linden
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