MIke, thanks for the info, very helpful indeed. Sorry I missed the documentation, I couldn't find a relevant reference.
I've never printed a map so didn't know about the advertising - and therefore definitely not provided by me. But then it's Google's map with my data (at least thats true when presented with this URL). Thanks much for the assist, Cheers, --Kip On Oct 24, 5:41 pm, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
