new PDFPrint widget

[jmcgrath]

Add a new widget calling the mapfish print servlet generating a PDF file with the current layers visible.

• Multiple template available for the PDF
• Custom form for each template

The servlet and the templates must be already installed.

[jmcgrath]

First working version on bdga sample

[yvesm]

See also ​http://trac.osgeo.org/geoprisma/ticket/5

Especially look at the ongoing development by AHocevar on a GeoExt print widget : ​http://www.geoext.org/pipermail/dev/2009-December/000440.html. This will probably make its way in the GeoExt ux svn soon.

[yvesm]

Good first pass James ! I've successfully set it up on a test machine. Next step is to bring the widget at par with either what MapFish does :

• ​http://demo.mapfish.org/mapfishsample/trunk/examples/print/simple.html (not working as of today)
• ​http://demo.mapfish.org/mapfishsample/trunk/examples/print/basic.html (not working as of today)

Or what the GeoExt print widget will allow to do, e.g.

• ​http://dev.geoext.org/sandbox/ahocevar/playground/ux/Printing/examples/Printing.html

The GeoExt implementation allows vector layers to be printed too (​http://trac.geoext.org/changeset/1536).

[jmcgrath]

Here's a patch with a complete independent sample ready for review. The .po files are included for fr_CA and en_US.

See included file (pdfprint.diff)

[adube]

r777 - First version commited with a sample working on the MapFish server (the one hosted by MapFish).

Fixed and closed.