The other simple but critical step is to always create and modify
labels/text at exactly the same scale at which you intend to print.
Regards
George M Smith
At 08:44 AM 02/03/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Welcome to the Wonderful World of MapInfo!
>
>A few suggestions:
>
>Are you printing from a layout window? That can give you more
>control....but not much more.
>
>Another thing I do is, when labeling, don't use the label feature in the
>layer control. As you may have noticed, that keeps the font size the same
>no matter what zoom you are at. Instead, run the autolbl.mbx (should be in
>MapInfo>Professional>tools). What this does is draws labels in the cosmetic
>layer which can then be saved to their very own table. The labels are thus
>like any other map object -- i.e., if the label is 10 miles wide, it will
>always be 10 miles wide, regardless of zoom, position, etc. That helps
>enormously.
>
>Hope that helps -- good luck.
>
>Jason
>
>
>
>Jason McMahan
>Director of Cartography
>Resource Data International
>(303) 444-7788
>http://www.rdimaps.com
>
>
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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: MI Text Positions on Screen v on Paper
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>
>I'm a reasonably sophisticated computer user, but a newcomer to MapInfo. My
>requirements at the moment are pretty simple: I am overlaying small amounts
>of data onto a map, and doing some annotating of the map. The final medium
>for these maps is paper - my problem is I'm unable to count on text or
>labels appearing on a printed map in the same place as on the screen
>display. I've tried using different printers, printing from both Map and
>Layout windows etc. I can manually move the text, but there's no
>consistency between the offsets from label to label. The offsets are small,
>but significant, especially for doing things like labeling lat/long axes
>(which I am adding manually - I haven't yet found a way to do this
>automatically. A grid is not a suitable option either) Surely I must be
>missing something important ?
>
>Sorry for the basic question. Thanks for your help
>
>Peter Strain
>
>Marine Chemistry Section
>Bedford Institute of Oceanography
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