I may be missing something, but can I take anything directly from MI into Adobe Illustrator and get a good printable image? or do I have to have the Avenza Product? I find the layout feature in MI to really be useless for the stuff I need but no real luck in getting really good looking images of MI's maps. Dick Hoskins [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Walls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Marjo Seppanen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 1:32 AM Subject: MI Re: printing maps > Marjo > > I am sure you have had a number of replies by now but if not, the save > window as option is junk without fiddling to make image sizes a lot greater > than you screen , it is effectively a screen dump and does it at monitor > resolution 72dpi which makes it useless for printing, the best way is to > spend money..... again.....and buy a professional graphics package such as > Adobe Illustrator or Freehand and a peice of software from Avenza called > map publisher, this allows the latter to read mapinfo files to recreate the > map and you then use the superior graphic power of that software to save > and print maps at a better resolution. As to sending maps by e-mail my best > answer is if the recipient has not got mapinfo, Adobe Acrobat is the best > bet it is at least cheap and the reader software is free and available > immediatly off the internet although it comes with most computers these > days. If you buy Illustrator it can save your map directly to .pdf which is > the Acrobat formt, I have however found that Illustrators pdf option does > not always properly incorporate fonts which can give difficulty if the file > is sent to another machine without your fonts installed. It will try to > make a best guess but it doesn't always pick the right alternative, this is > especially so with Mapinfo symbol fonts. > > > If you are sendin to mapinfo users who have the same base maps, if you are > simply trying to pass over some map related annotations, you could use a > workspace but this will be difficult if the directory structure for the > data is different on the 2 computers. I have however found after being sent > workspaces by unknowing users at work, I have been able to read the > workspace in a text editor, recreate the map layers on my computer save it > as a workspace and then copy and paste the relevant parts out of the > workspace that relate to the 'cosmetic' components whic hare then rescued > and can be viewed. The last option although not difficult should be avoided > if the recipient is not familiar with workspace make up or text editing. > > Adrian > > **************************************************************************** > * _ * > * |_|/~\----^\_ Adrian Walls, North Wales * > * _/_ * :. 14 Tyn Llan,Llanferres,Denbighshire,CH7 5SP, UK * > * // | :' [EMAIL PROTECTED] * > * - \ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * > * / : http://www.nwmba.demon.co.uk * > * \ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * > * / : AOL Instant Message Username : MacMTBman * > * __/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * > * /~ :. * > * ~\-__ : * > * `--_ ___- : * > * \___/ * > **************************************************************************** > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put > "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
