G'day Bill,
Try using the text as an image in a map window, then into a layout.
We have use PaintShop Pro to create a jpg of a large body of text and
opened it as a dumb image, then placed it into the layout.
PaintShop Pro gave best legibility of text @approx 8-10pt size.
HTH
Cheers
Greg.
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Greg Francisco
Mapping and Design Services
Dept. of Infrastructure - Planning & Policy
Nauru House, Level 10, 80 Collins St,
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3000.
61 3 9655 3424
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I've got to modify an MBX application to print a page of legal fineprint
following the output of one to many maps. The maps are easy, but how do
you produce a neatly-formatted page of text? This page has about 1000
words of boilerplate text and I've got to add some run-time generated
summary text as well.
The output goes directly to the printer on the client machines, and I
can't assume they have MS Word, Adobe PDF, or even a web browser.
The only thing I can think of is to paste the boilerplate text into a
layout window, line by line (because strings can't be longer than 255
chars), and then save it as a workspace. At run time, I could then open
this layout, drop in my additional text at the top of the page, and print
the page. But the prospect of manually laying out the fixed text seems a
bit daunting.
Does anyone know if there is a better way, or a tool that can move a Word
document into a frame that could be dropped on a layout?
- Bill Thoen
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