Hi: Have you looked at SmartLabel from Maptext - www.maptext.com/smartlabel This product allows you to do what you are looking for and much more.
Regards, Rishi Mehra Head of Sales & Business Development MapText, Inc. Tel: 609-716-7552 Fax: 609-716-7553 www.maptext.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Gagnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'mapinfo list'" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 11:16 PM Subject: Re: [MI-L] more labels > Thanks everybody for all the postings.. > The main reason I wanted to use this function is for putting the label > more than once along a polyline. > Ex: a long stretch of highway, it nice to see the label at every 5 or 10 km. > > There should be a function added to future mi updates.. > Something in the label function: along with "allow overlapping" > But a special function that would allow the same label to appear more > than once and at specific intervals (distances). > > For now I think that David's answer will have to do. > > Thank you everyone > regards, > > Eric > > David Reid wrote: > > Not on a single polyline, not with the normal Mapinfo Label tool. > > > > BUT... You can with LABELER.MBX I think it is maybe a remnant from MI 3.x? > > Works good for cartogrpahic work but time consuming. It will place a text > > object in the cosmetic based on your labeling expression for a given layer. > > You then save the cosmetic objects to a real table if you wish to keep them. > > > > I'm almost sure it can be found in the tool bin at Directions. > > > > HTH > > David Reid > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Gagnon > > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 12:14 PM > > To: mapinfo list > > Subject: [MI-L] more labels > > > > > > hi all , > > > > is there a way to show a label more than once on one polyline. > > > > TIA > > > > Eric > > > > > > > -- > Eric Gagnon, B.Sc. > Maptica > www.maptica.com > > _______________________________________________ > MapInfo-L mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l > _______________________________________________ MapInfo-L mailing list [email protected] http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
