topic Re: Printing to a Plotter in ArcGIS API for Silverlight Questions

Printing to a Plotter

CraigPerreault — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:45:26 GMT

Has anyone tried printing to a plotter using a larger page size (like D size paper)? I did not have any luck with our HPDJ T1100. It does print using the default size.

Re: Printing to a Plotter

dotMorten_esri — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:55:21 GMT

Silverlight's print implementation is done by printing to a high-resolution bitmap. I'm guessing when you try to print to such a large format, the bitmap will be enourmous and likely the cause of the issue.
Your best bet it probably generate the print on the server and create a PDF, but of course that's a lot more work on your side (there's a sample in the code gallery).
Also I suggest you cast your vote on this feature: http://dotnet.uservoice.com/forums/4325-silverlight-feature-suggestions/suggestions/656927-vector-printing?ref=title

Re: Printing to a Plotter

nicogis — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 12:16:35 GMT

I have made this custom utility from print to server
http://resources.esri.com/arcgisserver/apis/javascript/arcgis/index.cfm?fa=codeGalleryDetails&scriptID=16934

You can simply it creating images using rest calling ExportImage client-side (http://services.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/SDK/REST/exportimage.html). It return url.

you use this code http://rexdotnet.blogspot.com/2009/11/using-arcgis-server-rest-api-in-net.html for call rest from client.

then send urls image to ws for custom utility and in custom utility edit code and create world file :

ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.IRasterLayer rasterLayer = new ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.RasterLayerClass();
rasterLayer .CreateFromFilePath(physicalpathimagegeneratefromexportimage);
templateMap.AddLayer((ILayer)rasterLayer);