Hi Carlos, Welcome to Mapnik! Great thread.
'Better Print Support' would be a great project. One approach would be to implement svg_renderer (using existing agg/cairo as a basis) . This way it'll be possible to have full control how features are rendered/layered. Performance is another area, where we can improve (cairo is slow). How about fast boost:karma [1] based SVG renderer ? [1] http://boost-spirit.com/home/2010/03/09/integer-to-string-conversion-karma-fastest-again/ Regards, Artem 2010/3/22 Rahkonen Jukka <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > There is an open Geoserver ticket about the same thing. Sample image and > comments may be useful. > > http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-3640?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=213866#action_213866 > > -Jukka Rahkonen- > > > > -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- > Lähettäjä: [email protected] puolesta: Dane Springmeyer > Lähetetty: ma 22.3.2010 4:45 > Vastaanottaja: Carlos Enrique López Garcés > Kopio: Mapnik users mailing-list; mapnik-devel > Aihe: Re: [Mapnik-users] [Mapnik-devel] Better Print Support GSoC'sproject > > Carlos, > > Welcome! We've already chatted on IRC, but its great to see you > posting to the list already. > > Robert, > > Great ideas. I'd totally forgot about the amazing stuff started in > that PDF branch. I think it came before my involvement with Mapnik. Do > you have any cool sample output you could share? Maybe post to a new > ticket that targets porting the featureset over to the Cairo backend? > > Colin, > > Likewise, I forgot how cool Holger's rotated maps were! Wow! > http://www.ancalime.de/rotated.html > > I've updated the GSOC "better printed maps" entry to try to link to > some existing tickets and if I've missed some of these ideas please > create new tickets to capture them or otherwise edit the GSOC page. > > http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/GSOC2010/Ideas#BetterPrintSupport > > Right now the more ideas the better, so we can flesh out related > topics. The time will come for both students, mentors, and the Mapnik > community to hone in on the right feasible/fun subtopics, but for > right now let's keep collecting the material. > > Thanks! > > Dane > > > > On Mar 21, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Colin Marquardt wrote: > >> 2010/3/21 Robert Coup <[email protected]>: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00140.html >>> >>> it has/had some cool features which could be worth porting to a >>> Cairo-based PDF renderer. >>> * paper sizes/scale calculations >>> * grids/graticules >>> * overlay images, including other PDFs >>> * scale bars >>> * borders around the map, with coordinates >>> * outputting map layers as true PDF layers. This allows turning on & >>> off individual layers in a PDF viewer. >> >> Good suggestions. I'm adding some more, even if these go way beyond >> what could be expected of a single GSoC project - but it would be cool >> to have them all :) >> >> * ability to merge multiple layers (hillshading, contour lines, >> highlighting of routes or POIs, ...) >> * Copyright/Attribution line (e.g. CC requires the full URL to the >> license on printed maps) >> * "North" arrow (important with a rotated map, see >> http://www.ancalime.de/rotated.html) >> * Legend tailored to what is actually seen on the printed map (vs. >> what is in the style file for this zoomlevel) >> * Gazetteer (take a look at http://maposmatic.org), maybe including a >> list of interesting features (hotels, public transport stations, ...) >> >> Cheers >> Colin >> _______________________________________________ >> Mapnik-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-devel > > _______________________________________________ > Mapnik-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Mapnik-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users > _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
