It looks like they've addressed map printing from KML. Previously, you only got the pretty icons on the screen. When you printed out the map all the icons reverted to the default red teardrop.
Now, if you provide printable GIF equivalents of your marker icons, with filenames like those you've spotted, then your GIFs will be used for printing. If those files are not found, as in your case, then a red teardrop will be used for printing. If you want your users to have custom icons when they print out maps from your KML files, then create those GIF files. Last time I checked, none of the supported browsers correctly prints transparent PNG images, so the API substitutes the GIF images when available. When you create custom icons within the API, you can specify the icon.printImage and icon.mozPrintImage parameters. See: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GIcon [The difference in the ie.gif and ff.gif files used by Google themselves seems to be that pixels which have partial transparency in the PNG image (typically the edges of the visible part) fade to black in ie.gif and fade to white in ff.gif. The difference in appearance is pretty insignificant.] By the way: Are you adding that advert to your map printouts or is Google doing that without your knowledge? -- http://econym.org.uk/gmap The Blackpool Community Church Javascript Team --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
