What you should do is worry only about what the map looks like when
printed at the scale you want, not what it looks like in the map window.
A useful tool that allows you to switch between "print view" and "full
extents view" is the MI Named Views tool. Turn off zoom layering and
zoom to the full extent and save that view, then zoom in to different
windows over your map and make sure the styles, labels, etc. all look
good at the print scale. When satisfied that it will look good, return
to the full extent view and "save window as" with the increased
resolution. You should get good results that way.
Tim Smith wrote:
Sorry Bill, I forgot to answer your original question...
When you "Save Window As" you get a chance to set the width and height of the
output window. If you zoom >out to show everything you want, and then save
the window as 4 or 10 or whatever times larger than the default do the
features render as you want?
No, the street-level maps aren't there because they get removed when I zoom out.
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Thoen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 15 September 2006 14:45
To: Tim Smith
Cc: Gilbert Haché; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MI-L] Exporting map as bitmap
When you "Save Window As" you get a chance to set the width and height of the
output window. If you zoom out to show everything you want, and then save the window as 4
or 10 or whatever times larger than the default do the features render as you want?
In newer versions of MI, you can also set the dpi, but saving the window as
larger sizes does essentially the same thing. For example if your default
window size is say, 3 inches wide, and the (usual) Windows dpi is 96, then your
output bitmap will be 288 pixels wide. However, if you save that same window at
9.375 inches, you effectivly bump up the resolution to 300 dpi.
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 02:15:07PM +0100, Tim Smith wrote:
Thanks Gilbert,
That would help a bit, but my problem is that I need the street level
printed out. When zoomed in to the correct level (where street-names
appear), I can only get about 500m on the screen. If I change the zoom level to get more of the map, it changes the feature appearance. Also the size of the layout window is determined by the printer, which in my case is A4!
Perhaps there's a way to set dpi, without changing the zoom level.
I've no idea what to do next.
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Gilbert Haché [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 15 September 2006 13:57
To: Tim Smith
Subject: RE: [MI-L] Exporting map as bitmap
Don't use the Map windows to export. Use the layout, put your map on
it and export your image from there. The screen is limited in size but
the layout can be huge like 36X 28 as an example Vs a 15 inches
screen! You can even set a layout with multiple pages and resize it if
you really want a lot of details...
Save as .png, the file size will be small, jpeg are good for images
with lots of colors or shade, png is more efficient with file with few
colors like a map.
Hope this help
Gilbert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Smith
Sent: September 15, 2006 8:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [MI-L] Exporting map as bitmap
Hi List,
Does anyone know the best way to export a huge bitmap of an area of a
map with MapInfo pro?
The 'Save Window As' option is no good as I need to export a large
area, and when I zoom in to street level (which is what I want to
export), I obviously only see a small part of the large area I want to
export.
I'm using the UTM WGS84 projection and datum.
What I'd like to do is specify an easting and northing and width and
height, a zoom level (so I can choose street-level) and an output
resolution.
I might be asking for a lot, but how else can you export a
street-level bitmap?
The 'Save Window As' option is also limited to around 9,500 pixels in
any dimension.
Can anyone help me?
Kind regards
Tim
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