The pdf solution is possible for small maps, only to a certain degree. I
wanted to use it for maps in A6 format and that was too small for the
driver.
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20.03.2005 01:53
Veuillez r�pondre � "RNC"
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cc : "'MapInfo-L \(E-mail\)'" <[email protected]>,
"'Neil
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Objet : Re: MI-L Vedr.: RE: MI-L Map2PDF.... Now this is innovation
What I hear is that its possible with PDF especially with small maps,
which
happens to be the world in which I exist.
Thus the question, what's next for the small map folks?
Is there something we can grab onto??
The idea is very interesting.....
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Subject: MI-L Vedr.: RE: MI-L Map2PDF.... Now this is innovation
Hi
PDF is nice and effective for many purposes, but not for big maps.
I'm working at a county where one of our task is planning and on part of
the planning is printing maps.
Our maps is A0 (= very large prints approx 1meter*1meter)
It has been a pain in the a.. and we has tried several approaches, one is
printing to a TIFF file and then RIP it at a pro printing house(it works,
but there is problems with colorspace managment and file sizes and to get
a
rasterprinter driver for Win2000/XP in A0 size), another has been to
install Mapinfo at the printhouse, transfer all our data adn print
directly to their RIP (it works but is costly) and the last has been to
generate a PDF file.
The last solution looked promising, but now looks like a dead end for
large
sizes (we are using it for reports and smaller maps with much success).
The first problem was to find a tool, which could generate A0 PDF files.
PDF is basicaly generalized Postscript and the next surprise was a
discovery of driver dependet variations (the solution to this problem was
to install the RIP's PS driver on our PC's and use it as the base for the
PDF). But even with a PDF generated with the driver from the RIP, we
encountered problems and some is releated to the way postscrip handles
vector and raster information. The result is that a resonable PDF copy of
a
map explodes the memory use in the RIP and we has seen several examples of
maps it was impossibly to print.
We hasn't found a solution to the printing problems and doesn't se PDF as
an universial solution (it's still a good tool for small maps)
By the way, we solved our problem by moving to a entirely web based
planning, with all our maps avalible on a MapXstreame server (as web gis,
as download and WMS, with WFS in the neasr future)
Ole Gregor,
Udviklingskonsulent i Milj� og Teknik
Viborg Amt
(45) 87 27 13 07
"David Reid"
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"'Neil Havermale'"
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"'MapInfo-L \(E-mail\)'"
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Emne
RE: MI-L Map2PDF.... Now this is
innovation
You're right, doesn't list Mapinfo.
Hmmm... Must still be in beta test. ;)
Dave
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From: Neil Havermale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 8:39 AM
To: MapInfo-L (E-mail)
Subject: MI-L Map2PDF.... Now this is innovation
Now this is really a neat product.... It just doesn't work with MapInfo
Pro
or MapXtream (yet?). Hello, Hello, earth to troy... is anyone listening?
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