Re: MI Printing Maps

[Tony D'Ambrosio]

Here is another post in which I beseech the MapInfo community to help me fully understand how to create professional quality maps with MapInfo for use in layout and design in other programs or on the web.  I checked out Avenza’s website, and MapPublisher looks good, but at $495 I wanted to get some opinions.  It seems to solve what is so far the biggest problem I have: outputting a high resolution map from mapinfo into a useable graphic format.  It’s obvious that “save window as” is useless for this, even though there are a few ways to cheat and up the resolution.   Therefore I would like to request some feedback from people who produce professional quality printed materials that contain MapInfo maps.  Do you all have to use a product like Avenza’s MapPublisher? If so, can I get away with purchasing MapPublisher LT?  What other products are there besides MapPublisher?   What about .eps?  I cannot get mapinfo to output to .eps successfully.  I can place a mapinfo-created eps in ms word, but without a preview image I can’t tell how big it is or where it’s going to print on the page.  I’ve been trying ghostview, with no luck.  Ghostview can handle any .ps or .eps I give it, except those that come from MapInfo.  I think it’s a combination of me not fully understanding it and MI not really having the capability or working correctly.   Everyday somebody’s asking similar questions about high-quality map output.  I would like to get some more dialogue going about this.  Thanks to the few people who have emailed me about this in the past.  I’m still trying to work through a good solution and I’d love some more help.   Thanks   Tony D’Ambrosio [EMAIL PROTECTED]