Maptitude -
http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
I'm wondering if any of you have experienced
difficulties printing from Maptitude 4.0. In the past, I've found Maptitude to
be the one application of mine that sometimes has problems printing to my HP
DeskJet 1000C and Adobe Acrobat PDF Writer 3.0 in Windows 98 (I also
use Office 97 and have had no problems printing to either the HP or
PDF).
I'll offer a partial list of some
difficulties, in the hope that some other Maptitude users may have
encountered the same (sorry about the length of this, but I thought this might
be of interest to some):
1. occasional lock-ups when printing layouts
(usually not just straight maps), most often to my HP, but also a couple of
times to Acrobat; these have occurred maybe 10%-20% of the time over the last
year or two.
2. differences in manual label locations "on
screen" vs. "on the printed page" (i.e. a place name shifted to the
left or right between the two, sometimes by the length of the word). This
occurs in printing to both the HP printer and the Acrobat PDF
Writer; in Acrobat, the differences between Maptitude and the PDF
file can still be seen while still viewing the PDF on screen in
Acrobat.
3. an inability to have cross-hatching in
Maptitude maps show up at all in PDF files created
by Maptitude via the PDF Writer
4. in printing PDF files from Acrobat (file
generated originally by Maptitude), color reversals in a small number of
seemingly random polygons (e.g. sales areas, census tracts) but perfect in the
rest of the map (the PDF files look fine on screen, the problem
occurs when printing from Acrobat)
5. in printing a very large PDF file
(generated by Maptitude) to a 42" inch width page, the disappearance of all
map features except labels 3/4 of the way down the printed page (with the
upper part of the page printing beautifully); note, this is printing a PDF
directly from Acrobat to an HP DesignJet 1050C. Again, the PDF viewed
perfectly on screen, but printed with the same flaw three times.
I should note, I've reinstalled Maptitude, my HP
printer driver, Acrobat, and Windows at least twice each, with no
success. I've also tried installing Maptitude and the HP printer
driver on a completely different machine, with similar problems. Over the
weekend, after printing three layouts I could not print anything from
Maptitude to my HP printer without a complete lock up, despite reinstallations
of Maptitude and the printer driver (other packages still print perfectly). I
can currently print from Maptitude to Acrobat PDF Writer the same as
before, which is the only thing keeping me and my clients happy right
now!
I realize that some of these problems could be
the fault of the printer driver and Adobe Acrobat (as in perhaps #4 above),
but I'm frustrated that Maptitude is the only application I have that
has acted this way in printing.
Anyone had any similar problems? Of even more
interest, any solutions?
Murray Rice
Altavision Geographics
Tel: (800) 436-3632 / (306) 955-4722
Fax (306) 955-4723
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