== Map Printing ==
We want to be able to Print maps.

This will require access to the same view as the user is seeing, so will require using their Authentication & saving all their settings (!Viewport/Active !Layers/Filter Status) & passing to a Browser.

e.g.
* http://phantomjs.org (!WebKit-based)
* http://www.slimerjs.org (Gecko-based)

We have a solution in trunk based on using PhantomJS via Selenium:
* UserGuidelines/Admin/MapPrinting

Older thoughts:
 * PakistanDevelopers#Printing

Another option is using Java:
 * [http://www.mapfish.org/doc/print/ MapFish Printing Module]
  * [wiki:GIS/InstallationGuidelines/Linux#MapFish InstallationGuidelines]
  * Reasons why Java was chosen: http://trac.mapfish.org/trac/mapfish/wiki/Proposals/PrintModuleSpec
  * !GeoExplorer notes on this: http://projects.opengeo.org/geoext/wiki/Printing
 * We'd like to be able to print to an Image not just a PDF:
  * http://trac.mapfish.org/trac/mapfish/ticket/161

Alternate Java:
 * [http://www.geomajas.org Geomajas]

Python:
 * http://trac.osgeo.org/openlayers/wiki/TileStitchingPrinting
 * Possibly-useful libraries:
  * [http://www.reportlab.org/rl_toolkit.html ReportLab]
   * [http://code.google.com/p/rst2pdf/ rST2PDF]
  * [http://www.htmltopdf.org/ XHTML2PDF (Pisa)]
  * [http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/ PyPDF]

A !JavaScript library:
 * [http://code.google.com/p/jspdf JSPDF]

Other:
 * http://www.htmldoc.org - used by http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TracWikiToPdfPlugin
 * https://medium.com/nyc-planning-digital/printing-web-maps-83e7d9d3d467

PDF export of data attributes is a representation added to the [wiki:BluePrintREST RESTlike controller].

Printing the current view would be the same as printing a [wiki:BluePrintGISWebMapContext WebMapContext].

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[wiki:BluePrint/GIS GIS BluePrints]
[wiki:BluePrint/GIS GIS BluePrints]