topic Re: Printing a textSymbol in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Printing a textSymbol

IbrahimHussein — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:25:51 GMT

Hey guys, I am making a measurement app, and I am adding the measurements on every click as a graphic(point, textSymbol) and I am setting the color to white. Now on the map it shows up as white, but when I print the result, the measurement text comes out black. Cant seem to figure out whats going on, any ideas?

Re: Printing a textSymbol

NicholasHaney — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 17:24:16 GMT

I've seen this sort of thing happen before when working with fonts. I downloaded your code and rewrote the part that creates the text symbols. Using the verbose method of creating the symbol fixed the issue for me. This is the code I used:

var font = new Font();

font.setSize("15pt");

font.setWeight(Font.WEIGHT_BOLDER);

font.setFamily("Candara");

var color = new Color();

color.setColor([255, 255, 255]);

var textSymbol = new TextSymbol()

textSymbol.setText(zero.toFixed(1).toString()+"'");

textSymbol.setFont(font);

textSymbol.setColor(color);

textSymbol.setAlign(Font.ALIGN_MIDDLE);

textSymbol.setAngle(0);

totalLength += zero;

mx = (parseFloat(x1)+parseFloat(x))/2;

my = (parseFloat(y1)+parseFloat(y))/2;

var labelPoint = new Point(mx,my);

var labelPointGraphic = new Graphic();

labelPointGraphic.setGeometry(labelPoint);

labelPointGraphic.setSymbol(textSymbol);

Re: Printing a textSymbol

IbrahimHussein — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 17:30:52 GMT

Thanks, its been driving me crazy since everything looked correct. Your suggestion worked perfectly!

Re: Printing a textSymbol

CMC111 — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 14:46:02 GMT

I have same problem with textsymbol in printing layout. No matter what color i use, the printing map symbols always still black.

I try the example but not working. zero not defined.

You can send more code for this?

thanks

Joao