Google Maps (and GGeoXML) have been doing this for a long time (for over a year)
The thing about this is its not documented, nor configurable. To make it worse its doing on jpg icon images too. I just serve 0 bytes 404's for these urls. I guess it should be added to the issue tracker (cant see it from a quick look) (the ads are a general feature of Maps now) On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:41 AM, 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 > > > > > -- Barry - www.nearby.org.uk - www.geograph.org.uk - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
