[Gvsig_english] Some questions regarding printing

[Rory Hill]

Hi Wolfgang and all,

You know that I support any measures taken to improve quality and 
functionality of the Map Composer. I hope some improvements will be made 
for v2.0, whenever it is released.

Your cycle map sounds like a nice piece of cartography! Have you a 
sample that can be viewed online?

All the best,

Rory.

Wolfgang Qual wrote:
> 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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