[OpenLayers-Users] Save jpg from actual Mapview

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 03:53:46PM +0100, Rahn Hanno (rahn) wrote:
> Hello list,
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> I have another question to you. Perhaps you can help me. I will have a simple
> imgage (jpg, png, gif, ...) from my mapview. I will have a button on my side
> and if the user presses this button you can save the actual mapview with all
> shown layers in the shown scale and so on as an image. Like a screenshot from
> the map-div for example. The format is not so important. I don't know if it
> is possible. Perhaps this is not the right forum, but perhaps somebody can
> help me.

It is not possible to do this (universally) in the browser. You will need
to serialize your data to a service that can generate an image for you; 
MapFish has a 'print' module which I believe accomplishes this task.

-- Chris 

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> A lot of thanks to you for your help.
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> Greetings
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> Hanno
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> Hanno Rahn, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Geoinformatik
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