Remember the good ol’ days, when the only maps you had were pieces of paper? The past is now! 
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.
3 Comments
Excellent! It’s nice that the past is now again. I look forward to seeing this project develop.
Steve
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
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