The Application Server supports generating documents from Map View Definitions that are in a user defined scale (e.g. 1:10000). These to-scale map view documents are generated as bitmap files which are embedded in PDF documents and can therefore be easily printed using that exact scale.

The generation of these to-scale PDFs is done as a job and the resulting PDF will be available in the output files after the job has finished.

Limitations

When creating to scale raster files and PDF files several limitations apply.

Maximum pixel size of the embedded raster file: Rendering PNG files needs memory on the Application Server. To limit the load on the Application Server there is a fixed limit for the size of the raster file of 10000 x 10000 pixels.

Maximum size of PDF document

DPI and pixel size

When generating a to-scale map view you can specify the scale e.g. 1:10000, that defines how many real-world units are represented by one unit on paper. Therefore the scale setting defines the paper size of the to-scale PDF. The DPI of raster image embedded in the PDF can also be defined and has  great influence on the shown details especially when using raster background layers. Higher DPI produce higher quality to-scale maps, however the higher the DPI the bigger the size of the embedded bitmap.

Assuming a map is generated with meters as base unit following formula applies

PaperWidth = RealWorldWidthOfMap * Scale

ImageWidth = PaperWidth * 39.37 * DpiSetting

Examples:

•If map shows a total width of 10000 meters and scale factor is 1:10000 the paper width will be 1m. If DPI is set to 70 the size of the embedded bitmap will be ~2756 px

•If map shows a total width of 10000 meters and scale factor is 1:10000 the paper width will be 1m. If DPI is set to 300 the size of the embedded bitmap would be ~11811 px which would exceed the limits (see above)