[Users] Printing GYM base layers

[Yves Moisan]

Hi All,

Searching around for the status of printing commercial base layers in 
the ux print widget,  I came across this, which is the last I heard 
about the issue : "printing proprietary base layers like Google or Bing 
is going to be a pain"[1].  Is that still the case ?

If a user pays Google or Yahoo or MS the amount of money they want to 
use their data on their intranet, can their base layers be used in one 
of the GeoExt printing modules e.g. for customer reports ?  Is it any 
different for an OpenStreetMap base layer ?

I see the Printer example [2] works for OSM.  Do any of the "officially 
approved" [3] print widgets allow one to print an OSM layer (and more 
generally GYM layers) as base layer ?

TIA,

Yves

[1] http://projects.opengeo.org/geoext/wiki/Printing
[2] 
http://dev.geoext.org/sandbox/cmoullet/ux/Printer/examples/PrinterExample.html
[3] http://trac.geoext.org/wiki/Community#Officiallyapproved