Thanks Sue,
Its a lovely little utility that I am sure I will find a use for! All it
lacks is an append function, because the tab files may not end with a common
unique string. Nice site by the way!
Pete
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From: Sue Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 18 August 1999 10:19
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: MI colour/greyscale raster
Hi Peter, Pete and Steve and others,
Yet another way of doing the task!
You may be interested to know we have a free downloadable product called
Search
Plus that can do a search and replace function on a directory of files. It
was
initially designed to globally edit workspaces where tables have changed
location
but would work just as well for editing TAB files such as in your case. One
way would be to copy the TAB files to another directory. Then search for the
last few unique characters in TAB file and replace it with the same
characters
plus the raster settings. Rename the files and put them back in the original
directory.
If you would like a free copy of Search Plus, download it for our products
page
at http://www.spatialplus.com
Regards,
Sue.
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>Thanks!
>
>Never thought of the wildcards - it might work... anyone?
>Actually, for my specific project (with LOTS of .TAB and .TIF files), I
>started by using
>
>dir *.tab > copy.bat
>dir *.tab > add.bat
>
>and then used Search & Replace to build the .BAT files
>
>Regards
>
>Peter
>
>Peter Ketting, GIS consultant
>Ministry for Environment and Energy
>Denmark
>
>
> ----------
> Fra: Thake, Peter[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sendt: 17. august 1999 15:00
> Til: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Cc: 'Mapinfo-L'
> Emne: RE: MI colour/greyscale raster
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> Nice solution! What a pity you can't use wildcards to add the text to all
> tab files in a directory! (Or can you?)
>
> Pete
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 17 August 1999 10:52
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: MI colour/greyscale raster
>
>
> Hi Steve, Pete and others!
>
> As somebody might have mentioned, you can have several .TAB files using
> the
> same .TIF file. This means you can have a number of different raster
> setups
> with almost no additional load on your precious hard drives.
>
> So in this case I think you would want to go with two .TAB files for each
> .TIF - one for viewing, one for printing.
>
> Then, if you are fortunate enough to still have the original .TAB files
> WITHOUT any Rasterstyle clause, you can quickly add the appropriate clause
> in a DOS prompt using the statement
>
> echo Rasterstyle 1 52 >> myfile.tab
>
> This will add the text "Rasterstyle 1 52" (without quotes) to the end of
> the
> file.
>
> *note: In the above statement, insert the correct rasterstyle (you should
> be
> able to read it in an "adjusted" .TAB) instead of 1 52, and insert the
> correct filename instead of myfile.tab.
>
> To show an example:
>
> Let's assume, that you have raster images consisting of pairs like this:
>
> image1.tif image1.tab
> image2.tif image2.tab
> image3.tif image3.tab
>
> When viewed in Mapinfo they display in (unadjusted) colours. When the .TAB
> files are viewed in a text editor, they do NOT contain a Rasterstyle
> clause.
>
> Make a file named copy.bat containing the text
>
> copy image1.tab bwimage1.tab
> copy image2.tab bwimage2.tab
> copy image3.tab bwimage3.tab
>
> and place it in the same directory as the .TAB files.
>
> Run copy.bat
>
> Open the file bwimage1.tab in Mapinfo, and adjust it to the grayscale
> display you need for printing. Close the file.
> Open the file bwimage1.tab in a text editor, and note the Rasterstyle
> clause
> at the end. For this example we'll asume it's 1 52.
>
> Make a file named add.bat containing the text
>
> echo Rasterstyle 1 52 >> bwimage2.tab
> echo Rasterstyle 1 52 >> bwimage3.tab
>
> and place it in the same directory as the .TAB files.
>
> *note: Leave out bwimage1.tab, you already adjusted it manually.
>
> Run add.bat
>
> ....and that _should_ be it! I'm writing this from memory, so I might have
> slipped somewhere, but I _have_ used this approach, and it works!
>
> HTH.
>
> Peter
>
>
> Peter Ketting, GIS consultant
> Ministry for Environment and Energy
> Denmark
>
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