Comments on: Print button for Google Map API

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:58:24 +0000

okay… i stopped thinking… ;-)

var contents = window.opener.document.getElementById(“googlemap”).cloneNode(true);
document.getElementById(“googleprint”).appendChild(contents);

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:53:08 +0000

Hey adnan,

i changed your code
document.write(contents.innerHTML);
to
document.getElementById(“googleprint”).appendChild(contents);

now the svg path shows up correctly.
but the map disapears in the ‘original’ window.

any idea why?

By: adnan

adnan — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:22:04 +0000

@Fred, I’m not sure how to do that. There is a print button on http://maps.google.com/ and you can print directions from there, but no way if you are printing it from your custom gmap api code.

I’d like to know too. Please share with me if you get any solution.

Thanks :)

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:01:32 +0000

Some informations in my last post aren’t working. so I try again:

Your example works fine! Thanks for that!
But I have a problem with directions:
If my map shows a direction path from on destination to another and you do not (!) use firefox then the path is a “img”-object and all works fine.
But if you use firefox then the direction path is a “svg”-”path”-object and the path is not showing up in the popup window.
I read on google groups:
“SVG Web does not support using innerHTML to load SVG files.”
Is there any work-around?
Thanks for your help!

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:58:41 +0000

Your example works fine! Thanks for that!
But I have a problem with directions:
If my map shows a direction path from on destination to another and you do not (!) use firefox then the path is a object and all works fine.
But if you use firefox then the direction path is a object and the path is not showing up in the popup window.
I read on google groups:
“SVG Web does not support using innerHTML to load SVG files.”
Is there any work-around?
Thanks for your help!

By: adnan

adnan — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:48:09 +0000

you are most welcome @Markgt

By: Markgt

Markgt — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:57:50 +0000

That worked perfectly – thanks so much! been looking for a while for a way to do this
thanks for sharing :)

By: adnan

adnan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:51:06 +0000

Thank you @prisme for the info.

By: prisme

prisme — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:14:31 +0000

Seems that the Static maps API provides a simpler way to get a printable image :

http://code.google.com/intl/fr/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/

By: kree

kree — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:14:43 +0000

Thanks @adnan. I have to search another way then…