All,
I could do something for collecting the data with perl, haven't worked
with PDF output yet though.
bobb
Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
Not a bad idea Bob. I'd also like to take it a step further and have
some basic web forms that help to create the flyers so that no software
is required on the client - e.g. enter the info, press create and
download a PDF. Anyone want to help put their CGI and PDF lib skills
into this kind of thing? It could even be used for creating business
cards, etc.
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 08:38 -0500, Bob Basques wrote:
All,
OK, probably a weird idea, but. . . . while looking for the brochure
mentioned here (only found the old one so far . . .came into the
thread in the middle) . . .a thought occurred to me. Why not make
this project brochure creation thing a step in the incubation
process. Use some sort of basic template and each project has it's
own brochure.
bobb
Lars Lingner m...@lingner.eu wrote:
Steve Lime schrieb:
Hi Lars, thanks for working up an updated brochure, looking at the
old one
it could use it. Some comments...
- I think I'd avoid the MapServer website screen shot in favor of
another
app. The website text features the security fix announcements which
while
a reality in a project aren't marketing friendly. I can offer a
couple of sites
as could others I bet. I like your example, nice and colorful.
If someone could point me to MapServer powered sites, I'll update the
screenshot in the flyer.
- Perhaps the screen shots could be a bit taller, more of a square
aspect
ratio#63;
Ok, I'll take a further look.
- Under features it might make sense to highlight output options:
all sorts
of raster images, PDF, SWF, SVG and templated text
- Might include input and the new output plugin architectures as
features
- The Leverages best-of-breed sentence could be reworked to say
we
leverage other OSGeo projects including GDAL, GEOS, PostGIS and
Proj.4. I
think we should really emphasize the reliance on other OSGeo
projects.
- In the last feature sentence I think MapBuilder can be removed.
There are
some frameworks specific to (or that at least favor) MapServer (e.g.
p.mapper
and GeoMoose) that could get some love here...
Thanks for this info. I'm putting it in.
I think the 5.6 features are performance centric (raster rendering
improvements,
single pass, etc...). The 6.0 release *should* have a more
output-based focus
with full support for the rendering plugin, new object structures
including
references, better SLD support, styles within labels and so on. XML
mapfiles
will be in 5.6. It's important to note that XML mapfiles allow users
to define
a configuration in XML but you must transform it to a .map file for
use. I hope
that might really have an impact on wysiwyg editors eventually.
Sounds like an interesting roadmap, I'll spread the word... ;)
Lars
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