Hi Alessandro On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Alessandro Pasotti <apaso...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I've spent a few hours exploring the codebase while I was thinking about > building a web service to generate (vectorial) PDF for a map. > IMHO this would be a must, expecially now that QGIS has entered in the web > service arena with qgis-mapserver. > The idea is to build a qgis-mapserver companion which would take care of > building a PDF representation of the map using the configured project(s) and > a print template. > The idea is that the user can configure the WMS and print template from QGIS > GUI, and have a WMS + PDF-print service running with a few clicks. > The obvious road for such a service is qgis-mapserver (read layers, map > extent etc. from request like WMS does), + qgis-print-composer (read the > template name, the resolutions and paper format from request) but it seems > like the print-composer cannot work without a GUI, is this correct ?
Marco has refactored the composer code few releases ago, so now it's possible to use the print composer by calling only qgis_core code. There is also a simple example how to use the composer: http://www.qgis.org/pyqgis-cookbook/composer.html#output-using-map-composer The code saves only a raster image, though saving a PDF should require only minor modifications of that code. If you will have any problems adapting it, I'll try to provide also PDF example. Regards Martin _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
