topic High Quality Printing (Looking cool) in ArcGIS API for Flex Questions

High Quality Printing (Looking cool)

TonyCollins — Tue, 28 May 2013 17:43:19 GMT

So I finally hooked up the 10.1 printing which seems great so far, just have a few issues/questions:

1. Sometimes some of the drawing is missing, like parts of a polyline?
2. Graphic transparency/alpha is ignored/unsupported?
3. To get vector output for my cached service I turned on Dynamic Layers and set the DPI to 300 which seems to work brilliant. Is this the right thing to do?
4. At some point I need to support any colour transformtions the user has applied to the layer, is this going to be possible with some python interaction? Previously I handled all this stuff in a custom .NET webservice?

Thanks
Tony

Re: High Quality Printing (Looking cool)

Drew — Wed, 29 May 2013 11:36:39 GMT

I can help answer some of your questions...

So I finally hooked up the 10.1 printing which seems great so far, just have a few issues/questions:

1. Sometimes some of the drawing is missing, like parts of a polyline?
- Could this be due to scale dependency? I have never seen that before.
2. Graphic transparency/alpha is ignored/unsupported?
- From my knowledge this is how it is currently. I have the same issue.
3. To get vector output for my cached service I turned on Dynamic Layers and set the DPI to 300 which seems to work brilliant. Is this the right thing to do?
- I had to do the same or else cached services looked blurry.
4. At some point I need to support any colour transformtions the user has applied to the layer, is this going to be possible with some python interaction? Previously I handled all this stuff in a custom .NET webservice?

Thanks
Tony

Re: High Quality Printing (Looking cool)

PaulHastings1 — Wed, 29 May 2013 21:02:19 GMT

#1 could also be if you're rendering any of your graphics as composite symbols, the print task simply won't print them. that just bit us when we swapped from our own print service.