MapFish Print, the classic printing component, a project update
MapFish Print is a mature Java-based open source software (BSD-2 license) for printing maps. Opposed to frontend solutions such as inkmap (https://github.com/camptocamp/inkmap), MapFishPrint runs server side and is integrated in several open source GIS frameworks like GeoMapFish ( for creating geoportal applications) or geOrchestra (spatial data infrastructure).
The classic approach to deploy MapFish Print is using a WAR-file in a Servlet Container (for example Tomcat), while it can also be integrated into cloud environments with prebuilt Docker images. Alternatively, MapFish Print’s core printing library can also be integrated into other projects programmatically.
MapFish Print supports the common data formats and standards (WMS, WFS, WMTS, GeoJSON, etc.) and provides access to rich cartographic features like rotations, grids, north-arrow or legends and multi-page printing. The layout is defined by a JasperReports template and a YAML configuration file. The template allows users to define the layout, include elements for maps, legends, grids and alphanumeric tables. Clients request a concrete print-out with a JSON-Request, providing along information like bounding-box, map layers and other data. The final report will be rendered by MapFish Print either as PDF or as a raster image and returned to the client.
We will present a summary of existing features as well as new (e.g. tiled WMS with buffered tiles for rendering large areas without label conflicts) and planned features of the MapFish Print open source project.