On 12/12/2012 10:33 AM, Maarten Deen wrote:
On 2012-12-12 10:25, Hendrik Siedelmann wrote:
Hello,
all possibilities to render maps as ebooks (or for print) that I
found were relatively limited (only raster images and/or limited
number of pages). So I tried something new:
https://technik-stinkt.de/~hendrik/maps/ What do you think?
The idea is great. But before I download a 245MB PDF file: will Adobe
Acrobat or Foxit PDFreader load and display something like that
without problems? The most difficult PDF I have is a 4MB file of the
french railroad network (official RRF file), and a redraw after
zooming or panning takes a looong time. The inital draw is 20 seconds
alone.
Yes, it works :-D. Tested on ebook readers, which are waaaay slower
compared to a laptop. There should be no need to zoom, just go to the
page with the next higher zoom level.
And does 3.4MB for only the coastline and the one major road not seem
a bit excessive? I think the data should be a bit simplified before
you make a PDF out of it.
There is a bit of simplification (not enough). For what I want (really
big maps) it doesn't matter that much because the higher zoom levels
take all the space anyways. The small ones are just a demo if you don't
want to download the big one.
But again: the idea as such is good.
Regards, Maarten
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