Sorry to revisit an old topic, but I'm so frustrated trying to produce maps that anyone in the publishing industry can use quickly and easily. I'm about to produce about 10,000 Olympic maps (with the help of many volunteers from MapInfo-L!), so I'm looking for shortcuts. (I know about Avenza) I point interested mapinfo'ers to a product that creates orienteering maps, located at www.ocad.com. OCAD, written by an individual Hans Steinegger, is simply awesome, and has been for many years. The best feature of the current version allows the users to save any map as an Adobe Illustrator AI file, layers and all. Simply create your map adding objects (lines, points, polygons etc) and use File>Export>Adobe Illustrator. OCAD even allows you to select the colour palette (CMYK vs RGB). Go into Illustrator and open the file - voila. Your whole map, layers and all, and with TEXT as outlines! No error messages, no print to file just pure map. Now here's my question - if an individual programmer can get AI exporting into a mapping product in his spare time, why can't a team of programmers at MapInfo get similar functionality into MapInfo? OCAD is developed for a relatively small market of mapmakers around the world, yet in many ways has more power than MapInfo. OCAD reads/writes DXF, MapInfo reads/writes DXF - there has to be a way! Have a look at the tool that draws house outlines - way cool. All angles perpendicular. Even simple rectangles - imagine being able to draw a rectangle in MapInfo that isn't oriented north-south or east-west?! And the print options, the metatags, - the list is endless. Ant Burnett Sydney 2000 Olympic Torch Relay and Big Foot Orienteering Club, Sydney. [Views here are my own, not my employer] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
