Hi Gleb
As Canadian you might look at ACE (Advanced Cartographic Environment) of PCI
(www.pcigeomatics.com). ACE can read MIF/MID and in near future, with PCI Geomatica as
well TAB.
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On 25.08.2000 at 11:21 Gleb Bylov wrote:
>Hello Listers,
>Well Manifold does not produce thematic maps the way MapInfo does it, so it
>can not possibly replace old good MapInfo. It's rather an extremely
>powerful GIS / spatial <<analysis>> add-on to MapInfo (as well as to
>ArcView etc.). And their 3d visualisation stuff is cool too.
>Up till now, I was deliberately deleting all messages about printing from
>MapInfo. Now I have to produce a poster-size map from MapInfo and regret
>it. Can anyone offer any suggestions for professional [vector] output from
>MapInfo? Avenza's MapPublisher seems to do the job, but I recently noticed
>small notes on the website stating incompatibility of the most recent
>versions of MapPublisher and Illustrator / Freehand, the major host
>programs. Something to think about, given that upgrades to any subsequent
>versions from any of the parties (Avenza itself, Adobe and Macromedia)
>aren't cheap.
>The only option so far seems to be exporting MapInfo layers to dxf. Or
>converting everything from MapInfo to ArcView and exporting layers as Adobe
>Illustrator .ai files (very handy option in ArcView). However, in any case
>the attributes and formatting/design are lost by the time they reach any
>DTP program.
>Also, I tried printing from MapInfo to PDF - the output is raster, not vector.
>Any plug-in for Corel from MapInfo? Corel may be worse than Adobe packages,
>but it seems to have a decent vector output and the cost of upgrading to
>Corel 9 Graphics Suite (Draw and PhotoPaint and many more) is several times
>cheaper ($200 US) than buying or even upgrading Adobe Illustrator or Adobe
>Photoshop alone. And Corel offers competitive upgrades, Adobe does not.
>Does anyone know any other program (other than ArcView) that produces
>professional output from the layout and can eat MapInfo files? Any suggestions?
>Gleb.
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>P.S. Some helpful resources on printing from MapInfo:
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>http://www.sgsi.com/GraphicPubl_1099.htm
>(really good)
>http://www.pinebush.com/propress.html
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>Gleb Bylov
>GIS Analyst
>CSCA, Ryerson Polytechnic University
>www.csca.ryerson.ca
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