An overview of the Printing toolset

The Printing toolset provides tools to facilitate printing from web applications.

Export Web Map can be embedded in a geoprocessing service to generate a printable map.

The purpose of Get Layout Templates Info is to be associated with an Export Web Map task in a geoprocessing service to retrieve information about the content of each available layout template such as page size, whether a legend is available, user defined text elements, and so on.

Tool	Description
Export Web Map	Takes the state of a web app (for example, included services, layer visibility settings, and client-side graphics) and returns a printable page layout or basic map of the specified area of interest.
Get Layout Templates Info	Returns the content of layout templates in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format. Layout files (.pagx files) located in a folder are used as layout templates.