[Gvsig_english] Some questions regarding printing

[Wolfgang Qual]

Am Freitag 25 Juli 2008 14:57:45 schrieb 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.
As far as I know, there won't be many improvements regarding this in 2.0
>
> Your cycle map sounds like a nice piece of cartography! Have you a
> sample that can be viewed online?
Yes. We have also a mapserver-version of that map. The "frame" around the map 
soon will be enhanced and the service will be moved to a new server. 
Therfore, the current map is a little bit slow. You will have to click a 
little bit on the map to get a mor detailed view. Nevertheless, the link to 
the map (if it does not work for you, please do not hesitate to contact me):
--> 
http://dream.lrrl.arch.tu-muenchen.de/cgi/M3.cgi?map=radlstadtplan_aktuell.dfo.map

Symbology and small scale labels of street names are shapefile geometries - 
therefore, this will not be an issue for gvSIG. The only question is: 
how-to-get all this on paper! Or - before that - into a file that can be 
handed over to a professional printing service..

What about the developers and organizing-staff of the gvSIG software? Is 
the "professional printing" already on your list? What is your estimation 
regarding complexness and difficulty of implementing the desired 
functionality?

Best,
Wolfgang
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>
> 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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