Re: [udig-devel] Printing Reports in uDIG

2010-02-01 Thread Craig Taverner
Wow! This discussion has gone way off from the original printing capabilities discussion. However, the discussion is very relevant to my work too, so I'll throw in my two cents. I think when considering contributing code back, everything boils down to the business case. If it is important to the b

Re: [udig-devel] Printing Reports in uDIG

2010-02-01 Thread Andrea Aime
Riccardo Rigon ha scritto: If you do find yourself working for a customer the ideas is roughly to trade reduced maintenance cost for the upfront cost checking with the community (perhaps a design to be reviewed from the PSC?). i accept it (it is allowed), but I think it is a narrow perspectiv

Re: [udig-devel] Printing Reports in uDIG

2010-02-01 Thread Riccardo Rigon
On Jan 30, 2010, at 12:29 AM, Jody Garnett wrote: >> Can we get access to this code? Why was it not contributed back? We have >> done a prototype already where we have charts and tables inside the uDIG >> printable page, but it would be best to do this based on Emily's work, if >> possible. >

Re: [udig-devel] Printing Reports in uDIG

2010-01-29 Thread Jody Garnett
> Can we get access to this code? Why was it not contributed back? We have done > a prototype already where we have charts and tables inside the uDIG printable > page, but it would be best to do this based on Emily's work, if possible. In general when a consulting company, like Refractions or LI

Re: [udig-devel] Printing Reports in uDIG

2010-01-29 Thread Craig Taverner
Thanks Andrea and Jody for the responses. It sounds like most of the progress since 2005 has happened in trunk (1.2), and some of it even outside trunk (Emily's work). So we need to see how best to make use of this. I've asked Elena to review the code differences between uDig 1.1 and trunk, and we

Re: [udig-devel] Printing Reports in uDIG

2010-01-28 Thread Jody Garnett
Hi Craig: > We are investigating how to print reports from AWE, an application based on > uDIG 1.1.1. The current material on the uDIG wiki seems to be quite old (I > saw last modified dates in 2005). Has the uDIG printing infrastructure > changed much from what the wiki says compared to uDIG 1.1.

Re: [udig-devel] Printing Reports in uDIG

2010-01-28 Thread andrea antonello
Hi Craig, sorry for beeing late, I guess I was the last one working on printing lately. To be honest I only worked a bit with the extention points to add more stuff on the map and fixed mainly scale and paper issues, that were inexisting. Then I found lots of problems in the drawing of the graphic

[udig-devel] Printing Reports in uDIG

2010-01-21 Thread Craig Taverner
Hi, I have two related questions regarding printing in uDIG: We are investigating how to print reports from AWE, an application based on uDIG 1.1.1. The current material on the uDIG wiki seems to be quite old (I saw last modified dates in 2005). Has the uDIG printing infrastructure changed much f