[Live-demo] geopublisher sucking in openoffice? & missing project descriptions

[Sergio Baños Calvo]

Good morning to all.

As some of you requested, I've uploaded an example for the output for 
the Kosmo Advanced Printing Extension. There are three files available:

1) Example template : 
http://www.opengis.es/descargas/map_examples/example_output_template.odg
2) Example output (in ODG): 
http://www.opengis.es/descargas/map_examples/example_output.odg
3) Example output (exporting the ODG to PDF inside OOo Draw): 
http://www.opengis.es/descargas/map_examples/example_output.pdf

Hope this could complete the explain given by my teammate Carlos.

Regards,

SAIG Listas escribió:
> Antonio wrote:
>
>> On the other hand not only images are sent to the OOo document but
>> graphical and textual elements that may be part of the map like
>> descriptions on how the map is represented, legends, titles and other
>> things. Those elements must be sent to the OOo Draw document because 
>> it's
>> too hard work to do it manually.
>>
>> Kosmo also manage multiple/complex views, legends, details, scales, etc
>> ... with OOo.  OOo is far better in printing than anything we could
>> develop inside Kosmo.
>>    
> Hamish wrote:
> This is not the place, and I do not mean to second-guess Kosmo's design
> decisions at all, but it strikes me that PostScript (and its child PDF)
> has been the standard for this exact hardcopy output problem for, well,
> decades. Touch ups, rearrangement, and further decoration can be done
> in programs such as Inkscape or Illustrator.
>
> ---------
>
> I´m afraid we have not explained correctly ourself.
>
> - PostScript (and its child PDF) are the standard for the exact 
> hardcopy output problem. We know it, and we use it.
> - OpenOffice role in the procces of Kosmo advanced printing is 
> different. Like any desktop GIS you expect to have a map module in 
> wich you can design and create maps to print. This module must have 
> tools to let you create views (one or more), titles, legends, north 
> arrows, details, scales, graphics elements, etc. You can have two 
> approach to it. You can program it into your desktop GIS or you can 
> use a specific tool. OpenOffice Draw is this tool. We evaluate the 
> other ones (such as Inkscape or Illustrator) but openoffice with its 
> integration toolkits was in our point of view the one more prepared to 
> it.
>
> The process is like this:
>
> - You design a template for a map in OpenOffice Draw using all of its 
> great number of design tools (we did not want to clone it, they do it 
> pretty well with a big community and big development efforts). You 
> define in this templates places for views, details, scales, legends... 
> This template can be used as many times as you want for different 
> views and project. Once is made it you don´t have to retouch again.
> - When you are inside Kosmo you just have to say which map view you 
> want to use and the template that view belongs to, and basically 
> that´s it. You dont have to copy/paste screenshots, you have the 
> correct scale directly, much easier than touch ups, rearrangement, and 
> further map by map manual decoration.
> - Of course when you have the map you can generate a .pdf to avoid 
> printing problems.
> - So, OpenOffice Draw is not the tool to become a .pdf generator 
> substitute. OpenOffice Draw is the tool to design templates (in fact, 
> this kind of things are the Openoffice Draw goal). We did not want to 
> become wheel designer, OpenOffice Draw make it very good.
> - This approach is very efficient when, for example, you want to print 
> a map collection. You just have to design a template. The collection 
> of maps just use it and you dont have to make touch ups, 
> rearrangement, and further decoration one by one. They are just made it.
>
> I hope I could explaining better but I must sorry about my english.
> Regards.
>


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Sergio Baños Calvo

Jefe de desarrollos
Sistemas Abiertos de Información Geográfica, S.L. (SAIG S.L.)
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