JSON print: WYSIWG

[davidoesch]

reproduce

print
https://s.geo.admin.ch/7ed819e7b6
result:

PDF representation does not correspond to screen style

[procrastinatio]

The very old MF print server 2 has a more than limited support for vector data. Label features like halo, shadow, boxes are not supported.

[davidoesch]

Mfprint v3 would solve this?

[procrastinatio]

Per definition, all MapFsih print are not WYSIWIG because it has its own rasterizing engine, based on what is passed to it. The mapfish print protocol is based on Openlayers 2 JSON style, which does not support label boxes. I guess, it could be expanded.

Use Ctrl+P is not too bad (especially in landscape mode)

[davidoesch]

effort to expand this? since we

• json datasets are now quite common
• vt tiles printing will have the same issues

we could crowdsource mf print or --again lok for alternatives of mf-print

[procrastinatio]

As already stated, it is not optimal to serialize again a vector layer, to send it to a server. only to be rendered again/rasterize to generate a PDF. Browsers and WebGL are more efficient for rendering, up to a limit (resolution, raster layer, pdf type), but again, it depends what is important. If you want PDF 1/A, as mentioned a few time, you have to do it on a server with a $$$ library.