Hello,
please anybody know detail about this powermap SS1 behaviour?
i have wms map attached as raster, it has two layers: general map for large scale (view range) and detail map for detail (small scale view fe. 100x100m). It works good for viewing maps are chnged correctly while zoom in/zoom out .
Now , when i see a large map (my view range is 10x10km), i place fence from view and i would like to print it using pdf microstation driver. It looks fine, in the print preview i can see general map raster as i can in my view. But when i do print funcion, after pdf is created ... in pdf file i can see detail map, it means i can see different map because in print preview was large map.
in the pdf i can see small shapes (tiling), and maybe from this little range a print tool decides to use small map insted of large one .
Is there any setting to print wms raster layer in the same way as int print preview is? Or is this beaviour a bug?
Thanks very much for any hint or idea
Jan
Hi Jan,
If you check in the Rasterized checkbox the print engine create print raster tiles representing the data to print and send those raster tiles to the printer. Only if you modify the driver resolution (Driver Printer Configuration dialog->Base Properties->Advanced->Driver Resolution) the number of print raster tiles differ, modifying the raster quality does not affect the number of raster tiles.
If you leave the Rasterized checkbox uncheck the print engine doesn't create print raster tiles but send the vector and raster data directly to the printer.
So the Rasterized option doesn't have an impact on the quality of the raster data printed. Only the DPI of the print output medium (i.e. : sheet of paper, .pdf specified by the Driver Printer Configuration dialog->Base Properties->Advanced->Driver Resolution option) or the Raser Quality Factor is influencing the DPI of the raster data printed.
My advice is that you use solely the Raster Quality Factor available on the Print - Raster Options dialog to specify the correct DPI of the raster without diminishing the quality of the vector data to be printed, if any.
You don't need a tiling size setting. You just need to compute the DPI of your computer screen and tune the Quality factor in order to match the Raster resolution (dpi) information displayed on the Print - Raster Options dialog with the DPI of your computer screen.
HTH,
Mathieu
Hi Martin,
Even for one layer the WMS server might have different representation of the data at different scale.
For example if you have a layer representing the road network of a county it is quite possible that only the major highway are present at lower resolution (view of the whole county) while smaller less important roads become visible at higher resolution.
Thanks,
thanks to all, finally I solve this "somehow" - explaining : my print solution is a part of mdl program for automatic printing a set of fences - using two different wms maps and i can compute raster quality factor from papersize and fencesize ... like Martin said: "Lowering the resolution of the raster at print should have the effect you want." there is no other settings to affect this. regards Jan