[Gvsig_english] Some questions regarding printing

[silvio grosso]

Hello everybody, 
 
I am using gvSIG since 2007 and I really like the
functionality regarding the map. 
Actually, I started using gvSIG for its map options
(in 2007 Quantum had many problems about printing).
In the Quantum Gis web site the map printing was voted
in a poll by the users as the most important thing to
improve... At present, this improvement will be
probably added in the upcoming 1.0 version planned for
September.

I think the map functionality is really important in
the open source arena because Grass is not strong in
this field and a software like gvSIG could fill this
gap. 
In my view, a large majority of the Gis users must do
simple things and the printing of the map is often
necessary. 
At present, many power users use Grass (at least in
Italy where ArcGis is widespread everywhere).

I am a little disappointed about the decision to not
fix all the Map bugs in the upcoming version. 
On the other hand, I am perfectly aware there are
other priorities at present. 
Besides, I think many bugs regarding the map are not
easy at all to fix.

In my opinion, the most important thing to add in the
map is the option to save the map as image (e.g. as
jpeg, png, tiff).
Once you get an image you can trasform it into a pdf
(Scribus is very handy to do that and the next 1.3.5
version is going to rock!).
At present, the only workaround I am aware of is to
take a screenshot of the map with Gimp or other
sofwares in order to produce an image.
In Quantum gis and ArcGis you can save the map as
image.

This being said, I am really eager to try the next
gvSIG's version even though I am a little worried
about the rise in the bugs total.

In conclusion, I would like to thank all developers
for their work.
Especially, Mario Carrera for his work regarding the
translation of the manual.

Best regards and keep up the wonderful job.

Best regards

Silvio

In my opinion, the
--- Wolfgang Qual <wolfgang.qual at gmx.net> ha scritto:

> Hi list,
> few months ago, there was a discussion on this list
> regarding the possibility 
> of creating high-quality printouts, resp. creating
> printfiles that can be 
> given to a professional printing-service. Thus, it
> would be necesary to 
> create special pdf-files (for example pdf/x-3, x1a)
> or create such files out 
> of a ps-file in an external application. At the
> moment, this seems not be 
> possible using gvSIG and available external
> applications, because of 
> different reasons:
> * ps/pdf-Export of gvSIG is limited - depeding on
> the size of the content of 
> the map, exporting seems to be a problem (even with
> quite some RAM), some 
> symbology information is missing and a known bug
> regarding labeling
> * to my knowledge, it is not possible to process
> ps-files to pdf/x-3-files 
> using open source software (such as scribus, which
> can save pdf-documents in 
> x-3-format).
> So why do I write all this? 
> Well, first, I would be interested in the opinion of
> the developers. What is 
> foreseen for the future regarding "professional
> printing": do you see gvSIG 
> to become an application, which should allow users
> to create files that can 
> be used for professional printing purpose? If gvSIG
> itself won't do the job, 
> it should be possible to create export-files which
> can be used within a 
> dtp-programme or any other program that allows the
> creation of the requested 
> files.
> What about users: how do you deal with this issue?
> What is you opinion 
> regarding "professional printing". Do you consider
> it as necessary or are you 
> just happy with the printing functionality of the
> current version?
> Right now, it is already possible to quickly create
> a paper map of your 
> project. This is already very good and I like the
> map composer very much. 
> However, I think that we should discuss about the
> next step. I would be very 
> glad, if you would add *your opionion*. We - the
> Department of Health and 
> Environment of the City of Munich would like to
> create a cycle map using an 
> open source tool - using gvSIG. Therefore, that
> topic is of growing 
> importance. Maybe other users do plan similar
> things. I am really looking 
> forward to hearing from you....
> 
> Best,
> Wolfgang
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