Jan, I've given some thought to how printing might occur in OpenJUMP. I don't know how much time I'll have to code, but I'd love to work with you in the design process so the plug-in integrates well with OpenJUMP.
If you are intersted let me know, and I can give you some of my humble suggestions for the plug-in. The Sunburned Surveyor On 11/28/06, Rahkonen Jukka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jan, > > I am a bit fixated to agriculture and fields. But if it suits to your > project I would like to see an printing utility with this kind of features: > > - Printing the selected features at fixed scale (all parcels for one selected > farm) > - Because usually they do not fit on one sheet an utility for creating > multi-sheet output would be nice. It could be at least semiautomatic, for > example so that the user could insert the wireframes of the printouts above > the selection by hand. > - Printing single features with pre-defined attribute data. > > Regards, > > -Jukka- > > > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] puolesta: Jan-Oliver Wagner > >Dear OpenJump users and developers, > > >we (that is Intevation in Germany [1]) are currently > planning the implementation of a new > OpenJump plugin for Layout functionality. > > >There already exists one ("PrintLayout") from SIGLE. > But we do need more functionality and it turned out > that PrintLayout is kept entirely in french (comments, variables > and method names) which makes it really hard to maintain > internationally. Another reason is that the data strucure > is flat while for a more complex layout tool you need > a DOM like tree structure. > > >So, the basic plan is to develop a DOM based data model > to manage the objects of the layout. > This is accompanied with a interface to GUI methods (like > drawing a rectangle) and to export methods (e.g. PDF). > We will implement this framework as well as some > GUI methods and a PDF export. > We have not worked out the very details, so we are open > to any suggestions, needs, hints, ... > > >Background of this development is a small commercial contract > we received. We hope to make the tool as generally helpful as > possible. Any joined efford is welcome. The main activity phase > for the framework will be december and for the features in january > to february. > > >All the best > > > Jan > > > [1] http://www.intevation.de/geospatial/index.en.html > > -- > Jan-Oliver Wagner: www.intevation.de/~jan | GISpatcher: www.gispatcher.de > Kolab Konsortium : www.kolab-konsortium.de | Thuban : thuban.intevation.org > Intevation GmbH : www.intevation.de | Kolab : www.kolab.org > FreeGIS : www.freegis.org | GAV : www.grass-verein.de > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel