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Mats,
I just tried the pdf995 printer driver with A0 and
1200 dpi. MapInfo told me it was too big. Then I decreased to 600 dpi and
MapInfo told me it was >28000 pixels and the result might get clipped, but I
could continue. The result looks fine.
I believe you will face the same problems with the
geoprinter driver, even it could do A0.
Pdf995 goes all the way to 4000 dpi, if you want,
oversize A0 too. Free.
Regards
Uffe
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Subject: [MI-L] The Geoprinter service
[was: MapInfo and CGM output]
Hi All!
Having struggled with the pixel limitation in MapInfo I
naturally was very interested in the Geoprinter PDF utility you
mentioned.
However, I found it to be
of limited use.
In sweden we normally
use the A-series paper formats. Standard paper sizes starts with A0 which is
1189*841 mm, or 46,81"*33,11"
Smaller
sizes A1, A2 and so on are each half the size of an A0 with the same
width/height ratio.
The Geoprinter
driver has some standard sizes set (I like the pictograms) but none fit the
A-series, Further, the custom size input does not accept decimal input for
some reason. Neither can it be set to use millimeters instead in inches. These
are of course only GUI issues.
In
terms of perfomance, the driver is very good, reasonably fast and gives a
crisp output. The pdfs are rather big, but that of course comes with the
heightened resolution.
But a very
serious limitation is that the Geoprinter is hard coded to 600 px/inch output.
Well, using 600 px I can already print an A0 with the standard MapInfo setup.
But problems arise when we try to do
1200 px in A0 or A1. Our only solution so far is to accept 600 px, and in this
case the free Geoprinter driver is not needed.
Hälsning / Best regards
Mats.E
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Jon:
I am not aware of any direct support for CGM format
within MapInfo, only EMF
(enhanced metafile) available via the 'Advanced'
button on the print window.
I am aware of this resource at
http://www.cgmconverters.com/, but it would
require conversion first to
AutoCAD .DXF format first which may cause other
issues too. I believe
they have an SDK if you want to build something
specifically for MapInfo.
If the EMF to CGM file conversion does not do the trick for you and
you are
looking for a way to print from MapInfo to a file, you could use
our
GeoPrinter PDF Utility available at http://www.geoprinter.com. It
prints
output to PDF file format in sizes up to 9 X 12 feet (about 50 X 50
inches
is the maximum size MapInfo supports right now) and it is
free.
Good luck,
Kent Hargesheimer
Geographic
Enterprises
http://www.geo-e.com
tel 919.341.1535
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Listers,
Does anyone have experience with producing CGM (
Computer Graphics
Metafiles) output data from MapInfo ?
Converters
? "Drivers" ?
Rgds
Jon Petter Nielsen
Ugland IT Group AS
+47
69592818
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