We use even another simple but powerfull
solution to inalize/improve and preserve the layout of maps saved as metafiles
(usually) from MapInfo workspaces. It is Adobe's Page Maker. There you gust put
all MapInfo graphics and legends together, add textual descriptions, etc. and
save those final map layouts.
There are 4 main reasons why we do
that:
1. MapInfo is not able to
keep safely all the information which one would initally keep in its layout
window. We tried using original MapInfo features to create and keep maps to be
printed, but many constant failures and many different problems with scales,
setups, printing speed, etc. forced us to give up this idea. The truth is that
layout of paper maps is NOT YET solved in MapInfo (4.02, 4.5,
4.52);
2. One can have Page Maker files containing large collections
of map material generated in MapInfo, one can easily adjust the paper size to
vave large maps. While saving to metafile (vector), the scale of an original map
will remain perfectly the same. This works even better that original MapInfo
layout window with its frames;
3. One can save all that stuff into PDF format quite
easily;
4. IMPORTANT: Production of printouts can be made VERY easy
while going this way. FIRST: you can print a large file with many maps at once
(even several copies); SECOND: it would make a colour printout about two times
faster (the same quality), than if you would print from
MapInfo.
Regards,
Gedas Vaitkus, GIS Team
Leader
Institute of Ecology
Akademijos 2, 2600 Vilnius, Lithuania
-----Original Message-----Dear Laura & MapInfo Users:
From: Joachim Geerling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; MapInfo User List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 2:45 AM
Subject: MI Illustrator vs Corel
What are you referring to when you say:
- "It appears that a lot of people use the Adobe Illustrator, ..." to
pretty up their maps.
- And what is your experience with Corel 8?
I would like to learn, what advantages it would have to use a second
application besides MapInfo to improve the look & feel of maps.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with me.
Joachim Geerling
Marketing & GIS Consultant
Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
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