topic Re: Printing in A1, A2 and A3 in ArcGIS API for Flex Questions

Printing in A1, A2 and A3

DavidChura — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:42:05 GMT

Hello:

I am using Flexviewer, developing in Flex, i want to know how can print in A1, A2 or A3.

Re: Printing in A1, A2 and A3

EjayLai — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:53:35 GMT

When you hit print, the printer window comes up where you can make changes to the Preferences of the chosen printer...such as Orintation, color and size. I am not sure if that's what you are looking for. Or you are hoping to have a drop down list to allow user to pick the paper size to print? That will be nice, isn't it?

Re: Printing in A1, A2 and A3

DavidChura — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:34:46 GMT

Hello:

Thanks for your answer, but i need to print more that the window show, because when i print only takes the window snapshot, but i want to take when i print in A2 print a 3x3 screen size and in one of these screen i put some aditional information.

Thanks for your help

Re: Printing in A1, A2 and A3

TonyCollins — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:27:56 GMT

Use the export method (rest) on each mapservice, you can pass in whatever extents you want.

Re: Printing in A1, A2 and A3

DavidChura — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:44:38 GMT

Hello Tony:

Please, can you tell me: how can i use this method?

Best regards

David Chura

Re: Printing in A1, A2 and A3

DasaPaddock — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:09:36 GMT

See:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/flex/apiref/com/esri/ags/layers/ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer.html#exportMapImage()

Re: Printing in A1, A2 and A3

MattiasEkström — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:29:32 GMT

Has anyone tried this method for printing?
If I would try something like that, would it be possible to include graphicLayers and scalebar and things like that from the FlexViewer??

Re: Printing in A1, A2 and A3

Venkata_RaoTammineni — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:25:38 GMT

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
               xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
               xmlns:esri="http://www.esri.com/2008/ags"
               xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
               pageTitle="Printing with Flex">
    

    <s:layout>
        <s:VerticalLayout horizontalAlign="center"
                          paddingBottom="20"
                          paddingLeft="20"
                          paddingRight="20"
                          paddingTop="20"/>
    </s:layout>

    <fx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            import mx.printing.FlexPrintJobScaleType;
            import mx.printing.FlexPrintJob;
            import mx.controls.Alert;

            private function doPrint(myFlexPrintJobScaleType:String):void
            {
                // Create an instance of the FlexPrintJob class.
                var myPrintJob:FlexPrintJob = new FlexPrintJob();

                // Start the print job.
                if (myPrintJob.start())
                {
                    try
                    {
                        // hide the zoom slider so it won't be printed
                        myMap.zoomSliderVisible = false;

                        // Add the panel to print.
                        myPrintJob.addObject(myPanel, myFlexPrintJobScaleType);

                        // turn the zoom slider back on
                        myMap.zoomSliderVisible = true;
                    }
                    catch (error:Error)
                    {
                        Alert.show(error.toString());
                    }
                    // Send the job to the printer.
                    myPrintJob.send();
                }
            }
        ]]>
    </fx:Script>

    <s:HGroup horizontalAlign="center">
        <s:Button click="doPrint(FlexPrintJobScaleType.NONE)" label="Print (without scaling)"/>
        <s:Button click="doPrint(FlexPrintJobScaleType.SHOW_ALL)" label="Print (fit on one page)"/>
    </s:HGroup>
    <s:Panel id="myPanel"
             width="100%" height="100%"
             title="Print Map">
        <esri:Map id="myMap">
            <esri:ArcGISTiledMapServiceLayer url="http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Imagery/MapServer"/>
        </esri:Map>
    </s:Panel>
    <mx:Text htmlText="Read more about <u><a href='http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/mx/printing/package-detail.html' target='_blank' >Flex printing</a></u>."/>
</s:Application>

Check above code ...that might help you.

Re: Printing in A1, A2 and A3

MattiasEkström — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:48:03 GMT

Thanks, but that doesn't help me. I have a working printing functionality, but just like David described above I think it would be nice to be able to print in a larger format that is larger than the screen size (and not just get an small picture that is re-sized which doesn't look good at all).
Tony mentioned using "the export method (rest) on each mapservice, you can pass in whatever extents you want."
And this is what I'm asking about, if anyone has tried that successfully.

Re: Printing in A1, A2 and A3

FaridurChoudhury — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:07:36 GMT

Try this. In theory it should work but not too sure about the practical feasibility.

Create MXD-based ArcGIS layouts for each print size with the map, legends, north arrow, scalebars, copyright statements etc. just like you would in normal print template

Create a Web service, one that both browser clients and server-based applications could call

Pass parameters such as the map services to include on the layout, the map extent, the path of the MXD template to use, and the GIS server that will perform the export

Connects to the GIS server and use ArcObjects to build the request for the layout export.

The service passes the URL of the output file back to the client, which allows the user to download and display it. The output format can of course be any that ArcObjects supports, such as PDF, JPEG, PNG, EPS or SVG.

Excellent tip from GISi Blog: Creating a Print Service for High-quality Web GIS Output

It is always better to give the users a PDF as you are not depending on the browser's print which can be a real pain in the @@@.