My dream solution, which would fix this problem for all types of files, has always been what HTML editors have done for over ten years: make MAP files in formats that are text-editable, so that users can individually edit the paths when they know a file has moved, and, even better, offer a "universal replace" tool that would search through a user's map files and change a file reference wherever it appears.
(Web pages have the exact same problem as map files -- they reference a bunch of files that are located all over the place, and those files can easily be removed or moved. So, years ago, web creation software developed extremely sophisticated tools to handle the many problems that can arise from this situation.) My even more sophisticated dream tool is a synchronizing tool that allows users to indicate if we're taking a map 'on the road' and automatically copies any network-based files onto a laptops and changes the map files to use the laptop-based file locations until the user tells Maptitutde that it's reconnected and goes back to "network" mode. - Doug Douglas Johnson National Demographics Corporation 310-200-2058 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- In [email protected], "Moshe Haspel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fellow Maptituders: > > If you're like me, one of the last things you do when creating a > layout is to place a bitmap or jpeg logo on the page so that everyone > will know who made the map. And you've probably been frustrated by how > hard it is to get the logo looking "right" using the GUI: the > "freehand bitmap" tool always wants to size the image to the dimension > of the rectangle that you dragged and not to the actual size of the > image. > > The good folks at Caliper will hopefully fix this in the > long-anticipated version 5.0 (anyone want to leak us a release date?), > and hopefully 5.0 will allow you to place formats that aren't as lossy > (I'd love to be able to insert an .eps with a bounding box). But I > couldn't wait any longer, so I developed an "Insert Image" macro. It's > not much to look at, and it only does one thing (insert an image into > a layout). But it has made my life much easier. I'm posting it to the > "files" area in case others find it useful. The macro doesn't require > any "administrative settings," so you can compile it as an add-in. I > considered posting it compiled, but decided to include the code in the > spirit of open-source. > > Enjoy. > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Maptitude/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Maptitude/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
