[postgis-users] Re: PostGis reports

Chander Ganesan chander at otg-nc.com
Thu Oct 4 08:41:01 PDT 2007


David William Bitner wrote:
> Gus,
>
> Using I use MapServer to generate either a png or a jpg at a 
> resolution of 150 or 300dpi and then embed that into the pdf using 
> FPDF, I do not bother with the pdf output format with MapServer.
>
> David
>
> On 10/2/07, *Gustavo Ces* <g.ces at pettra.es <mailto:g.ces at pettra.es>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hi David,
>      
>         First of all, thanks for answering. I´ve got a question. I´ve
>     read the FPDF user manual and it seems you only can add jpg or png
>     images to your documents. How can you link the PDF with mapserver?
>     Does this serve jpg images ( as geoserver, for instance) or is it
>     an aplication and FPDF only interprets it as a confuse string?
>      
>     Gus
>
>
As a side note, you can use pdftk (open source) to overlay, merge, and 
fill PDF forms/documents.  If you wanted to use MapServer PDF's to merge 
into reports this would probably be the way to go.

-- 
Chander Ganesan
The Open Technology Group
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