[OpenLayers-Users] Print map to pdf

[Greg Allensworth]

Purely on the client side, no, you can't print it. You will need some 
server-side components.

One of our favorite approaches, is wkhtmltoimg and wkhtmltopdf
If you're interested, I just presented about this last week and the 
materials are online:
     http://www.parkinfo.org/gregor/NACIS2012/

These are command-line tools, using the WebKit engine to read a 
HTML/CSS/JavaScript document, and generate a static image or a PDF. 
Basically, you write your OpenLayers code, save the resulting 
HTML/JS/CSS to disk, then crunch it to generate a final PDF.

A down side here, is that the resulting map is browser quality. We've 
also had issues with the images resulting from JavaScript (e.g. the map 
itself) being of poor quality, so we often use a two-step process: 
wkhtmltoimg one one HTML page to save the map as an image, then 
wkhtmltopdf to embed that image into a final PDF.

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Greg Allensworth, Web GIS Developer
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