I've had a few responses and have consequently solved the problem for my purposes...heres a summary with the solution I overlooked, and subsequently used at the top! It was a pretty quick process of forcing the cosmetics on each layer I had displayed...
Thanks again all !!!
Date sent: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 13:26:38 +0000
From: "Russel Lawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MI Cosmetic Problem -Reply
David,
to temporarily force a layer to display in certain colors use the
Layer control >>> display button.
this sets all the objects in a mapper to a graphic setting of your
choice.
to permanently change the graphics, you need to manually select the
objects, I use a DIY suite of tools
that I use for bulk processing.
regards
r
Brit. Geol. Survey
From: "Thake, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'David Eagle'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Copies to: "'Mapinfo-L'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: MI Cosmetic Problem
Date sent: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:38:41 -0000
David,
I think you may be stuck with the long tedious method unless you can write
some MapBasic, but here are some other ideas:
1. Translate the OS data again using the universal translator utility that
comes with MapInfo. This brings each Landline layer in as a separate table
and the colour defaults to black.
2. Or use a proprietary translator that lets you specify the colours for
each layer. Some will also let you import the dxf or ntf format files in as
one layer rather than many (sorry, I can't recommend any!).
3. Or try opening all the tables as usual. Then save a workspace. Then open
the workspace (.wor) file in a text editor such as notepad. You can then
edit this to make layers open in a particular colour etc by overriding the
layer style. Try changing the linestyle for one table (Layer
control>display>style override)then saving the workspace: you will see that
the workspace inserts text to make the line colour different (something
like:
Layer 5
Display Global
Global Line (1,2,16711680)
You could use find and replace to add this to each layer.
Problem is that you may still need to do this for each map tile unless you
have coverage for a larger area.
Hope this helps!
Kind regards,
Pete, Ordnance Survey, UK
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From: David Eagle <deagle@cam_bc_01>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cosmetic Problem
Date sent: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 12:16:14 -0000
A Monday question!
Does anybody know if it is possible to select more than one layer
at a time in order to globally override the style of a particular
area...? or do I have to go through each layer individually and rather
tediously?
I have OS Landline data (numerous individual layers) displayed in
colour which I wish to display as black only so that the colour
layers I am superimposing over the top are more prominent. I have
tried a roundabout way of achieving this by printing the Landline in
B&W and then only the colour layers by form feeding the same
page into the colour printer but there is a mismatch in the layers
(as I expected!).
Any ideas would be helpful!
TIA, Dave.
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