Glad you all are getting into this. Way beyond me but I'm trying to learn fast.
I'm wondering if it is possible to have the label density (as in urban streets) increase as one zooms into the pdf layer. It would be just like in maptitude with labels set to not overlap, but as one zooms in more and more of the hidden ones appear. Is that possible or way beyond capabilities of acrobat? thnx Mike http://www.mapcruzin.com On 12 Jan 2008 at 21:43, Josh Rosenthal wrote: > Moshe, > > Thanks for taking up the torch. I haven't tried out the code and > will do so > monday when I get back to a friendly copy of maptitude. A few > thoughts. > * > Assumptions:* > 1), 2) good. (I'll try and see if PDF Creator uses a reliably > standard > printer install name we could assume and work with to avoid > requiring > constant changing of default printers, and just set the name as a > variable. > Earlier testing indicated it did, and that one could use the Acrobat > PDF > converter printer equally, but I'll look at that again later.) > > 3) Rather than assume paper size, could we assume an open layout > with an > empty map frame. This should allow a user to build their own > templates > controlling paper size and layout annotations they might want. We > might > also have the system create a print with the map frame empty just > showing > any annotations on the layout itself for use as the initial PDF. > > 4) Conceptually, the Legend behavior is problematic. Strictly > speaking, we > want to somehow capture the complete legend, with all layers, but > we'd want > that to be able to be displayed on all layers (or on our annotation > layer?), > and allow user control of location in the template, (or only display > the > relevant part, but in a related but not overlapping location). Not > sure how > that could be done, to display a legend that doesn't actually > represent the > frame shown?. For now, it makes sense to leave it out, I guess. > (Could > one, in theory, create a map frame, thus generating the legend, and > then > hide it by moving it out of sight, or deleting it, and still retain > the > legend?) > > *Structure Notes:* > Given (3) above, Loop 2 would then change the layers and (after the > first > time) refresh the frame rather than opening a layout. In theory we > could do > this by opening a layout arbitrarily named (ie: "PDFLtemplate.lay") > rather > than using an open layout. > > *Labels:* > Also... so far, I've only had searchable labels work when I make > them manual > labels, ie: objects. This requires more testing, but how could we > capture > those on their own layer(s) without having them show up in multiple > layers, > or otherwise getting lost. > Possible solution: For each "On" layer, print twice. First time, > as > normal. Second time, turn on the layer, convert labels to graphics, > turn > off labels, refresh layout, and print. How we keep track of those > annotations to delete them before we iterate, I'm not sure of. > > *Printing Invisibly*: > Printing from PDF Creator currently requires user involvement > (entering > name, created by, save locations, etc). I know in theory there are > ways to > use it in assorted batched work. Anyone out there have any > experience in > this? > > That said, I like it! > > Next step (which may be beyond me, but I'll take a look and at least > try to > get a sense of how it should be done) would be to script the acrobat > side of > things. > > Thanks a lot! > > Josh Rosenthal > GIS Supervisor > Massachusetts Historical Commission > > On Jan 11, 2008 5:29 PM, Moshe Haspel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected] <Maptitude%40yahoogroups.com>, > "Josh > > Rosenthal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > Anyone want to write a DK script to cycle through a user > selected > > subset of layers in a map, use a layout as a template and using > > Printer=PDFCreator produce all the component layers? > > > > == > > > > I'll take the first crack at this... A little unfair because I > am > > tearing off some of the easiest parts. > > > > For the purposes of a quick solution, I am going to assume: > > 1) All non-hidden layers in the map should be printed > > 2) PDFCreator is selected as the default printer in windows > > 3) The map is to be on an 8.5x11 "paper" > > 4) There is no map legend > > 5) Other stuff I haven't considered yet??? > > > > We can always relax these assumptions later. > > > > The code (which I will upload to the Files area as "Layers2PDF > > v0.1.rsc") loops through all layers three times: > > > > Loop 1: For each layer, store whether it is "hidden" or "shown." > Then > > hide it. > > > > Loop 2: For layers that were found to be "shown" in Loop 1, show > each > > one by one, open a layout, put the map with just that layer shown > in > > the layout, and print. Then hide the layer again. > > > > Loop 3: Restore all layers to their original status. > > > > > > > Yahoo! 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