- In you map windows zoom to cover the area you want your label. -Display the labels to your liking, fonts, etc from the layer control, make sure that you set your options properly like no labels limits and so... also, make the labels small, that will help the display in the layout that you will make in the following steps. - Make a new layout, add you windows. -change the page setup and make it HUGE, You can have multiple page like 4X4 pages, the size will depend on you paper size and the size of the labels you want displayed. -Look at the result in the layout, you may want to change size of fonts in original windows or rsize layout, you may have to do a few trils here before getting something usable. -Activate the original windows, not the layout... -At this point you may want to save a workspace. When transferring labels, you will create new layers and hide the labels from original layer. It's easier to close all and reopen workspace if the result are not to your liking... -Use the label tool. When asked to create labels, use the option to use the LAYOUT -The labels will be created on a new layer according to the display in your layout. -Afterward you can change the font to your liking if needed by selecting all object in this label layer, (if layer is set editable)
Note, depending on number of labels created, this may take some time to process in the layout -be patient! Also, sometime, in large layout, the labels may show in different size. Try changing your map projection, you may have better result if you do. Hope this help GH -----Original Message----- From: Ellingham Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 20:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI-L Labelling Difficulties Hello, I am trying to label the streets of Sydney in a third party software that doesn't have any layer control features, I therefore need to create a set of labels stored in a separate .tab file, the problem is that Sydney is quite large and MapInfo's auto generate label functions make the labels far too big to be practable - even font size 1 is way too big. Also to make the labels of smaller areas so that they fit and then append them together later would take forever. Anyone got some ideas? Regards...Morgan Ellingham <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 14308
