Printing and how Print Output Generation works |
  
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Printing and how Print Output Generation works |
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Printing is done using the WebOffice 10 R3 plotten extension installed on ArcGIS Server machine. Especially if WebOffice 10 R3 is set up in a distributed architecture (i.e. WebOffice 10 R3 application server and ArcGIS Server are installed on different machines) then a few things need to be known about how the plotting mechanisms work in order to configure the system properly.
The figure below shows the interaction sequence between WebOffice 10 R3 application server and ArcGIS Server map service with activated WebOffice 10 R3 plotten extension. It is important to note that communication via HTTP (by default using port 80) is used for exchanging map images between WebOffice 10 R3 application server (http:// <server host name> /WebOffice/output) and ArcGIS Server map service (http:// Server host name /arcgisoutput).
In some scenarios like e.g. when using SynerGIS User Management with NTLM authentication for implementing Single Sign On, you may run into problems concerning print output generation (not all map content shown in WebOffice 10 R3 client is available in plot output document) because the WebOffice 10 R3 plotten extension (running on ArcGIS Server machine) is not able to retrieve image files generated by WebOffice 10 R3 server (on WebOffice 10 R3 application server machine) using anonymous HTTP. For solving this problem it is possible to configure an alternative WebOffice 10 R3 output URL to be used. If this output URL is implemented as Virtual Directory with anonymous HTTP access then WebOffice 10 R3 plotten extension will be able to retrieve all image files contributing to the final plot output document. This virtual directory may not be located inside the WebOffice 10 R3 web application directory. For using any type of markup in prints it is also necessary to support all needed world file types in the virtual output directory. See chapter WebOffice for details of configuring an output folder in WebOffice 10 R3 and IIS.
Print output generation
