Re: [OpenLayers-Users] saving the view as an image, or to PDF?

2007-12-06 Thread David Fawcett
The GeoMoose interface does something similar. http://www.geomoose.org/moose You might want to take a look at the server-side script that they use for creating a print image. David. On Dec 5, 2007 11:28 PM, Eric Lemoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 6, 2007 2:13 AM, angus scown [EMAIL

[OpenLayers-Users] saving the view as an image, or to PDF?

2007-12-05 Thread Gregor Mosheh
What methods are available to save the current map image elsewhere, say into a PDF or as a static image? I do hope that I'm wrong about it not being possible. :) -- Gregor Mosheh / Greg Allensworth System Administrator, HostGIS cartographic development hosting services http://www.HostGIS.com/

Re: [OpenLayers-Users] saving the view as an image, or to PDF?

2007-12-05 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 03:40:43PM -0700, Gregor Mosheh wrote: What methods are available to save the current map image elsewhere, say into a PDF or as a static image? I do hope that I'm wrong about it not being possible. :) There is no cross-browser way to save the current view to a map

Re: [OpenLayers-Users] saving the view as an image, or to PDF?

2007-12-05 Thread Gregor Mosheh
Christopher Schmidt wrote: There is no cross-browser way to save the current view to a map image in the browser. Darn. Cuz trying to assemble the whole thing from little scraps of coordinates and all, yeek, I'm not looking forward to that. THanks for the clarification. -- Gregor Mosheh /

Re: [OpenLayers-Users] saving the view as an image, or to PDF?

2007-12-05 Thread angus scown
You need to use a mapserver for this as the constraints of pdf are very different to a browser. Openlayer is for presentation of information in the browser. We use a php mapscript that takes the layers and then generates a single jpeg file. We send the script the current layers, the extents

Re: [OpenLayers-Users] saving the view as an image, or to PDF?

2007-12-05 Thread Gregor Mosheh
angus scown wrote: There are other examples to get you started if you search the mail list archive for pdf or printing. Thanks a lot. I think I'll be okay, though. I'm pretty handy with Mapserver. An extent, a layer list, etc. and I'll probably have it before long. -- Gregor Mosheh / Greg

Re: [OpenLayers-Users] saving the view as an image, or to PDF?

2007-12-05 Thread Eric Lemoine
On Dec 6, 2007 2:13 AM, angus scown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to use a mapserver for this as the constraints of pdf are very different to a browser. Openlayer is for presentation of information in the browser. We use a php mapscript that takes the layers and then generates a single