Marjo
I am sure you have had a number of replies by now but if not, the save
window as option is junk without fiddling to make image sizes a lot greater
than you screen , it is effectively a screen dump and does it at monitor
resolution 72dpi which makes it useless for printing, the best way is to
spend money..... again.....and buy a professional graphics package such as
Adobe Illustrator or Freehand and a peice of software from Avenza called
map publisher, this allows the latter to read mapinfo files to recreate the
map and you then use the superior graphic power of that software to save
and print maps at a better resolution. As to sending maps by e-mail my best
answer is if the recipient has not got mapinfo, Adobe Acrobat is the best
bet it is at least cheap and the reader software is free and available
immediatly off the internet although it comes with most computers these
days. If you buy Illustrator it can save your map directly to .pdf which is
the Acrobat formt, I have however found that Illustrators pdf option does
not always properly incorporate fonts which can give difficulty if the file
is sent to another machine without your fonts installed. It will try to
make a best guess but it doesn't always pick the right alternative, this is
especially so with Mapinfo symbol fonts.
If you are sendin to mapinfo users who have the same base maps, if you are
simply trying to pass over some map related annotations, you could use a
workspace but this will be difficult if the directory structure for the
data is different on the 2 computers. I have however found after being sent
workspaces by unknowing users at work, I have been able to read the
workspace in a text editor, recreate the map layers on my computer save it
as a workspace and then copy and paste the relevant parts out of the
workspace that relate to the 'cosmetic' components whic hare then rescued
and can be viewed. The last option although not difficult should be avoided
if the recipient is not familiar with workspace make up or text editing.
Adrian
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