Hi! Thanks a lot for the IE fix I'll try it the next wednesday (the day I could test this kind of things)
I'll comment here if I discover a better way to solve something I wonder too why this supposed smart people do the job in this way Sometimes human is a weird animal! On Oct 29, 7:00 pm, pkh80 <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks a ton for this fix Garito... It took me a bit of modifying to > adapt it to my needs. I wanted a fix that got rid of the grey boxes > for markers in IE. It looks like the problem was just the opacity > filter that they have on the marker <div>'s. > > If you remove the filter then no more grey boxes! It also doesn't > appear to effect the visual display, so you can run this script even > when not printing. Hoping googlers see this and either give an > explanation for why the alpha(opacity=1) CSS, or remove it outright > then printing will work out of the box. > > I also tried to run the code as part of the initalization of my page > so that you don't need to execute it manually. This is quite an ugly > hack using setTimeout() timers. But I couldn't find any events that > fired when all the markers were loaded. Basically the script below > will keep running every few seconds until the markers are fixed. > > function init() { // run as part of the page initialization > pFcount = 0; > window.setTimeout("printFix()", 3000); // wait 3 seconds initially to > let markers load > > } > > function printFix() { > if (pFcount >= markers.length) return; // replace "markers" with the > array containing your markers > $('#mapDiv div').each(function(i, elem) { // replace "mapDiv" with > the div containing your map > var $elem = $(elem), background = > $elem.css('background-image'), > filter = $elem.css('filter'), backgroundcolor = $elem.css('background- > color'); > if (filter == 'alpha(opacity=1)' && background == 'none' && > backgroundcolor != 'white') { // tries to find only the marker divs > $elem.css('filter', '') // turns off opacity filter > that causes > grey boxes in IE printing > } > }); > window.setTimeout("printFix()", 1000); > > } > > I tested in IE8 and it looks great. IE6 and IE7 are still a little > screwy at times, but at least the markers show up! > > On Oct 13, 8:56 am, Garito <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all! > > There are a bunch of discussions on this group about people having > > problems printing the maps > > > When you try to print a map generated by the API, the images and the > > markers don't render properly > > > This is because how are the maps made > > > The map quadrants and the markers are setted as a div with a > > background image with the quadrant or the marker ( url(url-to-the- > > quadrant-image-or-marker) ) > > > If you want to print properly the generated map, you only need to read > > the div's with a background image and replace it with a real HTML > > image object > > > Here is how to do that with jQuery (it's only a proof of concept, you > > need to adapt it to your needs): > > > $('#mapaAgrupat div').each(function(i, elem) { > > var $elem = $(elem), background = $elem.css('background-image'); > > if(background != 'none') { > > background = background.replace('url("', ''); > > background = background.replace('")', ''); > > $elem.append('<img src="' + background + '" />'); > > $elem.css('background-image', ''); > > } > > > }); > > > Where #mapaAgrupat is the id of the map div (the same you pass to the > > map object) > > > At this stage of the test, I use firebug to run this code and works > > fine for that purpose > > > Then, the step by step process to reproduce what I'm saying: > > > 1.- Launch firefox > > 2.- Load your map > > 3.- Open Firebug tab > > 4.- Copy the code to the console > > 5.- Change the id of the div mapaAgrupat to the id of the div that > > contains your map > > 6.- Print the map (if you use Mac OS X as me, you don't need to really > > print, you could previsualize it to check it) > > > Hope this solve your print problems -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
