Hi, In my opinion SkyPrint is not really a printer plugin. It is rather an enhanced PrintScreen utility that sends the map from your screen to printer. It has some very good features which makes the print quality better than really using print screen or Save view as... option of OpenJUMP. These include some style adjustments and a possibility to double the raster image resolution. The unique feature in SkyPrint is that it can write out layered PDF where each map layer from OpenJUMP is written as a separate PDF layer. The visibility of layers can be controlled with the layer tool of Acrobat Reader. I am not sure if any other viewer support this feature.
Why I would call it PrintScreen utility is that it is missing all features that printed maps tend to have: Title, legend, scale, North Arrow etc. The SkyPrint UI shows the advanced features it has but here is the list of enhancement option it has for those who have not tried it: - Remove transparency - Print page border - Remove fills from basic style - Remove fills for color themes - Adjust line width by percent - Double raster image resolution SkyPrint creates very good quality prints and layered PDF is very nice format for many purposes but SkyPrint as the only printing utility is rather limited. Better long termo option would be to enhance the Cadplan printer with PDF layers and quality enhancement options. -Jukka Rahkonen- Michael Michaud wrote: Hi Geoff, Matthias Thanks a lot for the offer Geoff. As I'm not a daily user of printing features, my main concern for now is to rationalize developpements and to develop in a useful way. To help heading in that direction, may advice would be - to make a detailed comparison of skyprinter and cadplan printer features - to make a small survey about how people use them and how they are satisfied with them - to study how they can converge or how they can complete each other in future developments But the first step is probably to make skyprinter available, either in core or in plus version. Matthias, what do you think ? Is there already a comparison between both plugins ? Best regards, Michaël Dear All I would be quite happy to look at adding any required additional functionality to my printer plugin if this would add to the general OpenJump capability. Please let me know what might be useful. thanks Geoff On 18/03/2014 18:02, Rahkonen Jukka (Tike) wrote: Hi, Let SkyPrint be in the Plus then. However, then Core will still remain without printing capabilities which I think it would deserve. But there is already the "Save view as.." option in Core. If I think my own printing needs I need very often not only the map on a paper but also title, legend in a good place and fixed, selectable scale. Having these features brings the core printer pretty close to Cadplan printer plugin so perhaps OJ Core will live without printing options. For me title and legend and more frequently needed options than layered PDF which is the biggest gig in Skyprint. Perhaps it could be possible to add layering into Cadplan printer which also seems to be able to write PDF files with iText. I have a small wish for the SkyPrint plugin: it could have a dropdown menu for selecting the most common paper sizes for PDF dimensions. -Jukka Rahkonen- Lähettäjä: Giuseppe Aruta [mailto:giuseppe_ar...@yahoo.it] Lähetetty: 18. maaliskuuta 2014 11:05 Vastaanottaja: OpenJump develop and use Aihe: Re: [JPP-Devel] Integration of the SkyPrintPlugin into CORE I am in favour of Ede's proposal. Peppe 2014-03-17 20:18 GMT+01:00 <edgar.sol...@web.de<mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de>>: On 17.03.2014 18:39, Matthias Scholz wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> If it works on Win/Linux/Mac and 32-bit/64-bit then absolutely into core. >> The jar is only about 40 kb and makes it possible to > Not quite correct. You need the itext jar in the lib folder too ;-) ok, that's 1MB extra.. that smells like PLUS to me then. >>> @All.. is there agreement that this is wanted in CORE, or would we rather >>> have it in PLUS, to keep CORE lean? >> We can have a File -> Print submenu with SkyPrint in CORE and SkyPrint + >> Geoff's plugin in the PLUS. > > I am undecided, but Printing should be a core feature. However, what > Matthias proposed maybe best as Geoffs Printing is a bit heavier and > people should know by now that the goodies come with PLUS (hopefully). i'd suggest File->Print->Printer (Cadplan) Printer (SkyPrint) as to differentiate the two. trying to describe the difference would be to difficult in a short menu item's text. this can easily be done with the new install mechanism. default-plugins.xml can override the install setting of any extension. the string would go into OJ language files then. >> wrt. to the integration. >> >> @All.. is there agreement that this is wanted in CORE, or would we rather >> have it in PLUS, to keep CORE lean? > We can have a File -> Print submenu with SkyPrint in CORE and SkyPrint + > Geoff's plugin in the PLUS. >> >> Matthias: you might wanna read the old thread on what we "negotiated" >> http://sourceforge.net/p/jump-pilot/mailman/jump-pilot-devel/thread/5288BF32.3060408%40web.de/#msg31648034 > I read it yesterday again. To get the SkyPrinter run from lib/ext we > need the itext jar in the lib path. Ede, should i move the > itext-2.1.7.jar from lib/plus into lib/ and copy > SkyPrinterPlugIn-1.0.0.jar to the SVN into lib/ext or do you do that > during release build???? for PLUS this is handled easily. everything in trunk/lib/plus/ is simply copied into lib/ext/ during the PLUS release build. so, after Jukka or others "approved" the extension you might simply - add documentation to etc/readme.txt (section Licensing/PLUS), read other entries there to get an idea of the needed information - commit the needed jar to lib/plus/ & it will be included in the next PLUS build as you volunteered (kind of) now for the extension's maintenance ;) please also generate a proper extension release for sf.net<http://sf.net> files, instead of only a jar. that would be a zip file, containing ReadMe.txt - with chapters Installation - which file to copy where Licenses - name, files, component lib files - needed support jars, extension jar license files (txt,pdf...) for the components above, download them from the net and upload it for users wanting to use the extension with a barebone CORE OJ only. regards.. ede ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. 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