I hope it is not too trivial to ask if you are generating and placing your
labels on screen at the exact same scale at which you are printing. This is
a critical and often overlooked step. Saving them then as a file of text
objects is also stabilizing.
Regards
George M Smith
At 08:31 AM 2/5/99 -0800, you wrote:
>I have the same $?#@ problem. This has been extremely frustrating in the
>past.
>I have tried running MI from different computers as well as
>printers/plotters
>but the labels are still coming out all over the place.
>
>I also checked and double checked all my settings to verify if there was
>some
>reason that the labels were not plotted in the proper location. MI v4.0
>with
>Win95
>
>Hey, MapInfo people what is going on here???
>
>Cheers, from the great white north.
>
>Rick Branchaud
>Golder Associates Ltd.
>Ottawa, Canada
>
>____________________Reply Separator____________________
>Subject: MI Labels not plotted in right place!!!!
>Author: "Tony Shepherd" [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Date: 2/3/99 5:07 PM
>
>Has anybody else had any problems with large layouts and labels moving
>or disappearing?
>I have a large layout (A1) with perhaps 500 point features all labeled
>at 2pt offset above centre from the origin. When I plot the map, some
>are directly above the point (correct) while others are slightly to the
>left, others slightly to the right and some more are offset more than 2
>while others are offset less than 2. This is a real pain when you are
>trying to produce a professional looking map.
>I have changed all settings and tried all combinations possible with no
>joy. I am using NT4 and an HP DJ 750c plotter.
>Is this a MI thing or a plotting problem? One place that I think MI
>fails is its awful layout building tools, and I am sure that this is a
>related problem.
>Cheers
>Tony
>===========================
>Tony Shepherd
>GIS / IT Support
>Gore District Council
>PO Box 8, Gore, NZ
>ph (03) 208 9080 fax (03) 208 8875
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