I have an app where the user chooses parameters from a few dropdown menus, and a print-friendly map page opens in a new tab. From this page, the user can click a 'print' button, which uses window.print() to open the browser's print dialog. I have a print.css page, which is working well with my 'normal' divs, text and images. I have this tag in my HTML:
My problem is that I cannot seem to reset the size of the Dojo map object. The map in my printed page (or PDF, if I choose CutePDF) is the same size as whatever the size was in the print-friendly page. I would like my print.css to hard define the printed version / PDF as an exact height and width, regardless of the window size in the print-friendly page. I cannot define the size of page to be printed in the print-friendly page, b/c for one, my client would like to pan and zoom the map after the print-friendly page is generated. I have no problem setting the size of the other elements in my print.css rules (text box, hard coded legend with images)...but any rules I try to set for the map itself in my print.css page are ignored.
I tried using 'exportMapImage', thinking that maybe I could make an image of the map and its contents, but this loses the basemap which I need, and also I do not want the user to open yet another page or tab. (I am having the same problem with my scalebar, but I this isn't so important for this project).
My goal is to create a PDF or printed page that is the same size no matter what the screen size or current window size., and I have it working except for the map itself.
Any ideas? I hope I explained my problem clearly. Thanks , J
..still waiting for a reply on this one...I can't believe that we would need to get ArcServer 10 just to do this? someone has an idea , Kelly, Derek...?
