Summary of MI Save WIndow As Image not complete.

[Sean Ramsay]

  I posted a question a few weeks ago about incomplete images resulting form the MI Save Window  As Image.  A big thanks to the following who took the time to respond.

 

  Jaques Paris, Jason Adam, Brian Forrester, Alex Machinis, and Steve Wallace.

 

  Their responses are listed below.  In the end, I 'faked' the image sizes in the image dimension boxes to a larger size and that seemed to take care of the problem.  All the responses were very informative and very much appreciated.

 

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I've run into this problem when saving a WMF file - it's sometimes doesn't keep the fills on the right side of the page. One way you can try "tricking" it is to set up your Layout as a letter size and get it all ready to go, then change the page setup to Tabloid or Ledger to make it bigger than you need. Hopefully the 2-3' it cuts off will only be blank paper. You will need to Crop the blank space off the image when you import it into Powerpoint or Photoshop of wherever it's going to end up.

HTH,

Jason Adam

Computer Draftsperson

Monopros Limited

Toronto, ON

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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I don't know if this will help, but I could re-create your problem in the following way:

Create a "portrait" shaped workspace on a 20" monitor (like wot I've got) Open same workspace on a 17" monitor (like others in my company use) - et voila, your workspace will have been truncated perfectly!

I can't think of any other way to accomplish this.

I don't know if this will be any help at all, but there's clearly some

screen-dimension handling stuff in there that I've never got to the bottom

of.

These undocumented features, don't you just love them? I still use Mapinfo 4.1 (large installed 4.1 + 4.1 Runtime user-base)

Regards,

Brian Forrester

Edinburgh, Scotland

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

www.woodmac.com

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If you have installed the 55026 patch, you have your culprit. I have found many problems with the graphic export functions, even a simple copy paste will leave a large part of the map in neverneverlands. Several aspects of that problem "have been filed as a bug" by MI support persons.

I was so happy when 6 beta came out, I prefered that to uninstalling Mi to return to the 5.5 pure version.

If you do not have 55026 installed, then forget my explanation.

Jacques Paris

e-mail alternate
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

paris PC Consult (mainly MapInfo app.)
www.total.net/~rparis/gisproducts.htm

 

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For Windows 95/98, check your diskspace on your C drive; you may need more. Also, if I remember, you may need to check your swapfile size. If you freee up a chunk on your C drive, reboot and Windows should recalc the swapfile availability.

Good luck.

Alex Machinis
EMPOWER GEOGRAPHICS, INC.
1000 Executive Way
Des Plaines, Illinois 60018-1502
847/299-6952 x212 Fax: 847/299-6990

 

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I always suspect the video card and drivers in such instances.

1) Try this at standard VGA driver mode and see if it works.

2) Get the latest drivers for your video card.

Steve Wallace

GIS & Market Information Manager

Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies

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  Sean Ramsay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  GIS Programmer Analyst

  
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