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Flexible PDF Reporting Using FMENicholas RanicarFront Point Consulting

Objective

Project Cadastral data translation and validation process

for the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (Tesera Systems)

Required solution Standalone FME Workspace or Transformer PDF report output Visualisation of error features on context map,

separate attribution section

Source Data

SHP file containing report features

FFS file of background features

FFS file of background text

Required Output

Challenge

FME PDF Writer “The document will have one page and features will

be drawn in a rectangular region of the page called the viewport.”

Required output: Multiple pages Multiple regions per page Optional regions per page

Solution: Enabling PDF Writer Multi-Page Support

A PDF document can have 1 or more pages: pdf_page_number

A page can have 1 or more frames: pdf_frame_name position of the frame on the page: pdf_frame_rectangle

extent of the "map" inside the frame: pdf_world_rectangle

A feature can be written directly to the page or relative to a frame: pageCoordinates [yes|no]

Solution: Development of the FME Workflow

Build page elements Calculate number of report sections required

Create a new feature for each section title Assign each report feature to a section

Create frame as bounding box with 100m buffer around each report feature Build subset of background features, clipped to frame Define pdf_world_rectangle for each frame

Duplicate each report feature as a text feature for attribute reporting

Solution: Development of the FME Workflow

Position page elements Calculate sizes of page elements (section title, map

frame, attribute data) Calculate number of page elements per page (with

or without section title) based on PDF page size Calculate the position of each element on the page

(ie. x/y location in PDF page coordinates) Assign a page number to each element Assign a frame number and page number to each

report feature

What Makes This Flexible?

At runtime the user can specify page layout options, e.g. page size, margins, frame size, etc.

Demo

Thank You!

Questions?

For more information: Front Point Consulting Nic Ranicar : front.point.consulting@gmail.com