Hi All, Just a side note, how would you deal with a situation where your map has special fonts that only work with a license for your computer.
I had this problem earlier this year with a map I had to have a printer reproduce. One of the symbols used was an ESRI font which would not work on the Commercial Printer's computer because they didn't have the license for ESRI software because they don't have any ESRI products. I would even send them the fonts I used, but they would not work in the PDF and were substituted with a font from his computers. I was eventually resolved, but I had to change all of the symbols on my map and trying it on a computer here without any GIS software licenses. Any ideas to avoid this in the future (and I would like to use the symbols I choose for the map). Thanks, Don Mitchell 'tis the season to be greetin' Happy Holidays -----Original Message----- From: Rodger, Thomas 11004 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: December 20, 2004 4:04 AM To: 'Elizabeth Caponi'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MI-L Printing poster at commercial printer Hi Elizabeth, I'm presuming that by commercial printer you mean to get your poster printed by litho printers? Your best option would be to print a .pdf from your MapInfo Layout. Most commercial printers should be able to accept a pdf. There's a great freeware pdf printer called PDF995 and is available for download at: www.pdf995.com Once you've downloaded the files, install them on your computer, and you'll find a new printer in your printers list. Just select that printer, set your page size, and away you go! Your only problem may be if you've used out of the ordinary fonts in your layout or map windows, in which case, you may want to put those onto a disc as well when sending the file to the printers. Hope that helps. Thomas _______________________________ Thomas Rodger Mapping and Data Officer, ICT Direct Line: 01483 48(2352) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Elizabeth Caponi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 20:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI-L Printing poster at commercial printer Hi all, What is the best way to get a MapInfo layout file to a commercial printer (like Kinko's)? I have to create a poster 3' x 4' made up of 14 maps, a bunch of legends and whole lot of text. I tried "save window as" tiffs (resolution 1200) for each of my maps, and brought them into Quark. But the text on the maps and the legends were not all that clear, and since I don't want to create huge files by increasing my resolution (already some exceed 100 Mb), I thought I would just create my poster in MapInfo. How would I get a layout file to a commercial printer? Or am I going about it all the wrong way, and there is some better way to do this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Elizabeth Caponi --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 14625 Internet communications are not secure and therefore Surrey Police does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. This email and any attachments may be confidential. They may contain privileged information and are intended for the named addressee (s) only. They must not be distributed without our consent. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and delete the message and any attachments from your computer, do not disclose, distribute, or retain this email or any part of it. Unless expressly stated, opinions in this email are those of the individual sender, and not of Surrey Police. We believe but do not warrant that this e-mail and any attachments are virus free. You must therefore take full responsibility for virus checking. Surrey Police reserves the right to monitor all email communications through their networks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 14641
