Another alternative is to generate the raster image using mapnik and the ReportLabs library to produce a PDF (I think pdf to Postscript is an easy conversion). This is what I did with townguide ( http://code.google.com/p/townguide). ReportLabs is nice if you want to add a lot of text or other things because you can set a page layout and let the text etc. 'flow' around your layout without you having to think about page and cloumn breaks. I think maposmatic uses a different way of converting to PDF which does not have such flexibility, but manages to produce higher resolution output.
Graham. On 21 January 2011 19:00, Jon Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 10:47 -0800, fiskz wrote: > > Thanks I will look into pycairo. I'm hoping to render the whole canvas > > (including map) in postscript, with some of the postscript optional > content > > embedded before distilling. > > Try looking at what they do over at http://maposmatic.org/ > This uses Mapnik with a set of open source tools. I don't know if they > use the Mapnik vector output or embed a raster image into the PDF. > > Jon > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mapnik-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users > -- Graham Jones Hartlepool, UK.
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