GeoServer printing preview release

Remember the good ol’ days, when the only maps you had were pieces of paper?  The past is now! PDF example

Hi, I’m Alan, and I’m interning with OpenGeo this summer.  My first order of business has been plugging MapFish’s printing capability into GeoServer as a community module; right now we’re releasing a developer preview. The module exposes an HTTP interface that allows the user to ask the server to compose an attractive map in PDF format.  MapFish also provides a JavaScript library that allows easy printing from a OpenLayers map.

Up for trying it out? You’ll need to download a nightly build of trunk and add a few files to it. I have written up step-by-step instructions for anyone interested. If you have any feedback, please chime in on the GeoServer developers mailing list.

EDIT: The print module instructions have been updated for GeoServer .2.0.x.  Please refer to http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/community/printing/ instead of the old wiki page.

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9 Comments

  1. Stephen Mather
    Posted June 26, 2009 at 11:31 am | Permalink

    Excellent! It’s nice that the past is now again. I look forward to seeing this project develop.

    Steve

  2. Jesse Eichar
    Posted July 1, 2009 at 1:54 am | Permalink

    Hi Alan,

    I am responsible for the java serverside portion of the print servlet. Let me know if you have questions. I don’t have all the answers as I am just picking up the module but I would be happy to help if you have questions.

    Jesse

  3. Arthur Kolkman
    Posted December 28, 2009 at 7:59 am | Permalink

    Hi Alan,

    I followed your instructions to Install the MapFish printing extension on my GeoServer 2.0.0 in Tomcat, but I can’t get it working, since it complains on not finding the file “info.json”

    I find it very difficult to understand how the MapFish Print Module is working, since it is poor documentated. I have problems with the info.json and I don’t understand the function of create.json and print.pdf. Is there any good documentation or wike available?

    Kind regards,

    Arthur Kolkman

  4. Sorin Dudui
    Posted April 6, 2010 at 9:52 am | Permalink

    Hi Alan,

    I have same problem with the “info.json”.

    NOT_FOUND

    RequestURI=/geoserver/pdf/info.json

    Any solution?

    Thank you,
    Sorin

  5. frank vielma
    Posted June 16, 2010 at 8:28 pm | Permalink

    Hi,

    I have a problem with the “info.json” too.

    NOT_FOUND

    RequestURI=/geoserver/pdf/info.json

    Thanks in advance,
    Frank

  6. frank vielma
    Posted June 17, 2010 at 8:22 am | Permalink

    Hi

    I have same problem with the info.json

    HTTP ERROR: 500

    Missing configuration in web.xml ‘web-app/servlet/init-param[param-name=config]‘ or ‘web-app/context-param[param-name=config]‘

    RequestURI=/geoserver/pdf/info.json

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks in advance,
    Frank

  7. frank vielma
    Posted June 17, 2010 at 8:23 am | Permalink

    Hi,

    I have a similar problem:

    HTTP ERROR: 500

    Missing configuration in web.xml ‘web-app/servlet/init-param[param-name=config]‘ or ‘web-app/context-param[param-name=config]‘

    RequestURI=/geoserver/pdf/info.json

    Any suggestions ?

    Thanks in advance
    Frank

  8. Schalk Grobbelaar
    Posted July 30, 2010 at 6:07 am | Permalink

    Any luck on this as I am getting the same message:

    javax.servlet.ServletException: Missing configuration in web.xml ‘web-app/servlet/init-param[param-name=config]‘ or ‘web-app/context-param[param-name=config]‘

    I followed the step-by-step tutorial, but no luck installing the Printing Module in Geoserver…

    Thanks,
    Schalk

  9. Schalk Grobbelaar
    Posted July 31, 2010 at 12:28 pm | Permalink

    Anybody????

    I am getting same:

    HTTP ERROR: 500

    Missing configuration in web.xml ‘web-app/servlet/init-param[param-name=config]‘ or ‘web-app/context-param[param-name=config]‘

    Regards
    Schalk

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