Try out Canvas X GIS+, www.deneba.com It doesn't have the inherent 32,000
object/node limit of Illustrator (which Mappublisher solves via geometry
simplification). Canvas GIS+ can handle 2 billion objects, and has a
geographic real world coordinate space of 2,000 miles x 2,000 miles with a
precision of 0.5 microns, as apposed to Illustrators 180 inches x 180
inches, this is accomplished by Canvas's 64bit coordinate precision. It
also only costs $699 US and is a full raster photo editing tool as well. It
can reproject GeoTiffs and read in MapInfo TAB's ESRI E00 and SHP files,
ERMapper ECW's, and many other formats. It also allows you to paint on
vector polygons via 'sprite effects' which are a feature of some of the best
3D animation suites around. You can get a 90 day evaluation copy to try
out. I've got it at work and it works pretty good. There is even a
comparision document highlighting the features of Corel Graphics Suite vs.
Canvas X vs. Adobe Illustrator.
Stan Johnston
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Florence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Bratcher, Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 21:29
Subject: Re: [MI-L] Illustrator vs Corel
If you are intending to use Illustrator with Mapinfo why not check out
MAPublisher (www.mapublisher.com)? It is a geospatial suite for
Illustrator that acts as a set of plugins that allows the direct import of
many GIS data formats including Mapinfo data as full attributed and
spatially acurate vectors. If you do that you can use the full design
power of Illustrator with the attribute data of the Mapinfo file and thus
produce great maps easily without having to suffer through the poor
rasterized output you have described.
Ted Florence
Avenza Systems Inc. - Developers of MAPublisher & Geographic Imager
Visit http://www.avenza.com
MAPublisher - When Map Quality Matters (r)
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Bratcher, Jeff wrote:
We normally take MapInfo images and copy them and then take them into
Corel, pasted as a picture. We are now getting Adobe Illustrator. We
are having some issues with editing the images in Adobe Illustrator.
Specifically, the images are not as good when pated. We are now saving
the images as WMF's and placing them in Illustrator; but that has its own
issues, with the map outside of the clipping area showing up. Has anyone
else dealt with the Corel v Illustrator issue? or even just have tips on
using Illustrator and Mapinfo together?
Thanks
Jeff Bratcher
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