MI PDF Conversion problem with TEXT

Dear Mappers, Does anyone have any experience with converting *.ps file to *.pdf that was a Mapinfo file. Everything on the mapinfo map looks great, except no text appears on the map. Can someone please help? Does anyone have any suggestions? Dina Korkovelos GIS Analyst ATT Local Services

Re: MI National Parks/Protected areas globally

Natalie Swayze wrote: Does anyone know where I could get a National Parks layer if available. Preferably a free download... And I piggyback on the request but expanded to a source for protected areas (preferably with classes) globally. High hopes... Chris @ Chris

RE: MI Automate Conversion Using MUT?

To Tommy - The imut.exe program is a scaled down version of the FME.exe (ca version 2.1 - .2) program from SAFE software (www.safe.com). Imut can be run from the command-line just like fme. The best source of information about using imut from the command-line is to get the documentation

MI Backwards compatibility of MI

Dear List, Can someone tell me if MapInfo is backwards compatible. In other words if I do some work in MI v 5.5, can I open this in version 4.5? Thanks in advance Graham Hyde Map Analyst Polk Ltd 0113 386 4017 -- To

MI Performance increase with Oracle ?

Greeting! If I move my data from MI and Access to Oracle and access it through DBMS - will the performance increase significantly? And will I still be able to do geographical queries and calculations? I have databases with millions of rows and saving a table is an hour, selecting from it can be

MI Oracle 8.1.5 - Precision Issues

Hi, I have a 1 Gb db in oracle and manupulate it in MI. I recently discovered an issue that I haven't been able to resolve. The layers consist mostly of very large region polygon sets. The regions are very complex and extend over thousands of miles. Each region may consist of one or more

MI Books about VB/Integrated Mapping

hello 1)I am almost new to programming and searching for a book about Visual Basic 6 which also covers information I need to know to customize MapInfo through VB. any suggestions?? 2)Is VB easier to use than Visual Basic for application to customize MapInfo ,conserning that I am new to

Re: MI rotating tool

I'd be interested: my home-brew rotate tool introduces some distortions in multi-region objects - Original Message - From: mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 10:42 PM Subject: re: MI rotating tool I have written a tool

RE: MI MapInfo and Laptops (Notebooks) Any comments?

Hi David, Forget Toshiba Tecra8000's. We have used PII266 and PII300's neither with much success. More than 50% of the time when you exit, MapInfo makes Windows 'Blue Screen'. This has happened with both MI4.52 5.5 On a worthwhile note though, adding RAM really helps. We now have 128MB in

MI An other MBR

Hi All, Is it a program or function which calculate the maximum rectangle contain by an object ? Any help would be appreciated, Thanks -- Eric BONTE AUCHAN Service Marketing - Département Etudes Prospectives 200, Rue de la Recherche

MI digitizers

Would anyone like to give advice on reliable digitizers available on the market. I am considering spending in the $3,000 to $5,000 range? I need to digitize information primarily from navigational charts and maybe scanned documents. I primarily work with MapInfo, however, I also can work form

RE: MI SDE and MapInfo Summary

Great news? I understand there may be a SDE-Lite that extends SDE over Access? Anyone got the skinny? MidNight Mapper aka Neil 3/16/00 -Original Message-From: Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 8:18 AMSubject: MI

MI The Census - No Demographics?

I just filled out my 2000 census. Interestingly, it asked only about how many people, what race they were, and whether Iowned my house. There were no demographic questions. Is this true? Does this mean no free year 2000 demographics?Dan Dan MunsonVP Sales MarketingCDS Business

MI Naming Layout Window

Is there a utility or otherwise, similar to the Map Window Manager tool for naming layout windows? Steven Ward -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message

Re: MI The Census - No Demographics?

Under the older stuff, I thought everyone got some demographics, but some got the brutal, long form. That I thought was the difference between the STF-1 and STF-3 stuff. But I thought the STF-1 demopgrahics were actual not sampled. Dan - Original Message - From: Fekete, Fritz [EMAIL

Re: MI The Census - No Demographics?

US Census Demographic data is based on the "long form," which is sent to about 1 out of 6 households, and ascribed to all households in a given area (block, block group, tract, etc.) One of those non-secrets that makes census data less reliable for some purposes, but no less marketable. I'm sure

Re: MI Email Problems

"Hayes, Andrew" wrote: I am sorry but I am having a touch of the Elias's. hmm, a touch of the Elias's...is that going to be like pulling a Homer? :) Ron Halliday, Cartographer Portolan Geomatics http://members.home.net/portolan

Re: MI Backwards compatibility of MI

Yes, it is up to a point - the file format is the same but it does take some fiddling in a text editor and it pays to know the new commands recorded under v5.5 that are not available in the earlier version. Having opened the workspace file (your workspace name.WOR) in a text editor, first modify

RE: MI Naming Layout Window

Hi Stephen, I have a free utility on the Development page of our website www.gds.nf.net The basic command you can actually run from the mapbasic window Set Window Frontwindow() Title "new title" -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday,

MI SUM: Splitting Maps

Thanks to those who responded. ORIGINAL QUESTION I have a map covering a large area which I need to divide into A3 "pages" that will print at a resonable scale. The electronic file/s needs to be so that joining lines can not be changed or lost. Also an overlap between eage page would be

RE: MI Custom symbol

Title: Custom symbol Aaron, If you are running Win2000 you canadd as many as 6,400 new characters to your fonts using a utility (comes with Win2000) called eudcedit - just type it in at the run prompt. Regards Peter Graham WS Group - Mackay Ph: +61 (07) 4951 2911 Fx: +61 (07) 4953 1319 Em:

RE: MI digitizers

I need to digitize information primarily from navigational charts Don't know if this will help with the work load, but NOAA charts can be gotten in Raster form from MapTech http://www.maptech.com . more information can be found about the raster charts at

Re: RE: MI PDF Conversion problem with TEXT

Pete and all, I guess when it rains it pours. I just got done printing a series of maps using Distiller. When I tried to print the PDF output from Acrobat to my HP 2000C, the text disappeared. The text does show in the PDF image, though. Anyone have any experience with this? Mike Jenne

MI Palestine Belt Transverse Mercator

John, The Palestine Belt replaced the Palestine Grid (1928-1942), which was based on the Cassini-Soldner projection. The Palestine TM Belt is a Gauss-Kruger TM where the C.M.= 35*12'43.49" East of Greenwich, Scale Factor at Origin is unity, False Northing Latitude @ Origin = 31*44'02.7490"

Re: MI digitizers

Hi Karma: Just a note from across Puget Sound ... We use nautical charts all the time in MapInfo, because they provide our fisheries biologists and Tribal fisherman an authoritative, accurate, familiar raster backdrop of depths, shoreline, intertidal zones ... good stuff. The tool to use in

MI Run Program Statement

Thanks to everyone who helped out on this one. It was just a matter of getting the right amount of quotes in the right places. It also worked by truncating the path with a space in it to dos's way of looking at things. Ie. C:\MyDocu~1\.. Thanks again to the List for showing the way.

Re: MI Custom symbol

Title: Custom symbol If you have also sized your image to 32x32 pixels,reduces the number of colors, and you still can't get it to work, I have sometimes opened a pre-existing MI custom symbol, pasted my desired image to it, then saved the symbol to the desired new name. This will force a

RE: MI mif2tab.exe ?

I guess we'd be interested. We have a transport model that uses Access for data storage becasue all of our C++ processing software can directly read write Access databases. However all our development and presentation work is done in MapInfo requiring links and transfers that complicate the

RE: MI PDF Conversion problem with TEXT

I have experienced similar problems in the past and found that non-rotated text disappeared but rotated test stayed (particularly with halo). The solution was to rotate the non-rotated text by 0.1 of a degree. Strange but true. Cheers Martin == Martin Roundill

MI Thank You

Thank you for Answer to my question for Bo Thomsen Chris Perry Jason Adam About automate conversion using Universal Translator i found many information about mapping file on www.safe.com i think this what i want to know more, because there is limited information on application help

RE: MI .PDF text problems

I also have had trouble with text going into .pdf format. It seemes that sometimes a text object will be converted into a solid-color box in the position where the text should be. This only seems to happen when the text has extra properties such as a halo or drop shadow or a funky rotation

MI can mapxtreme display vector data

One quick query that has been bothering me for a while. If i use mapxtreme to develop apps for internet/intranet then it displays the output as a GIF image on your browser. is it possible for the browser to get vector data and work exactly in the fashion that we work with mapinfo? say we

MI Problem with Beta version MapInfo 6

While Test driving the Beta version of MapInfo 6. I have had problems overwriting existing workspaces which reside on a server using Windows NT. This problem has been experienced in version 5.5 and doesnt appear to have been rectified in Version 6 Beta. The error message is "Unable to save

MI World map centered on Australia/Oceania

I wish to thank Darren Holloway, Jason Adam and David M Haycraft for responding to this query: In this case, I would like to see Australia/Oceania at the centre, (ie 150 - 160 deg E) rather than having the map centred on 0 deg. Can anyone help out with such a World map view? I can be contacted

MI Lebanon maps

I'm looking for maps for Lebanon, both for the whole country and for for the cities. Does anyone know where I can buy these maps? Any help is appreciated. /Jesper Nielsen Jesper Nielsen B M Systemutveckling AB Box 805 S - 75108 Uppsala Sweden ---

Re: MI Problem with Beta version MapInfo 6

John, for beta testing discussions and questions please use the online discussion forum on the Mapinfo Web Site, where you downloaded the beta, thanks Markus - Original Message - From: John Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 6:03 AM Subject: MI

Re: MI Backwards compatibility of MI

nope, ive got 5.5 and 5.0 going and i can't go from from 5.5 workspaces back to 5.0. mind you i haven't compared workspace contents and it might be something very small and changeable - Original Message - From: "Hyde, Graham" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March

MI Custom symbol

Title: Custom symbol I have been trying to bring a bitmap in as a custom symbol without any luck. I have followed the directions in the help menu, making sure the file is small (2K) and is 8-bit, but it does not show up in the drop down for custom symbols. I have also restarted MapInfo, and

RE: MI The Census - No Demographics?

Much of the 1990 Census data (for all levels of geography) is available for free at http://www.FreeDemographics.com . On Friday evening, the site will incorporate the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal Data, which covers the PL 94-171 data and the 100% data (HSF) for the Dress rehearsal area of

Re: MI mif2tab.exe ?

I asked once. A few years ago the answer was no. I hear that a licensed DLL kit does exist, but it's not open to the general public, and it comes with a whopper price tag (naturally). However, I don't believe anyone can copyright a data format anyway (or ESRI, MapInfo, AutoDesk, and Integraph

MI New Maps of Census Data for New York

Greetings, I thought you might be interested in new maps that NYPIRG's Community Mapping Assistance Project has posted on the Web. The maps portray the latest county-by-county Census data showing a major population shift between upstate and downstate New York State from 1990 to 1999. The maps

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RE: MI The Census - No Demographics?

I got the Census too, kind of bugged me with the lack of questions and all. They at least know where you live and how old you are. I expected more questions. I think they are sampling the rest of the population for the other stuff. I read there is more than one form. When do people think we will

RE: MI MapXtreme Java - Thematic Mapping

Hi Gary, Thanks, I found the solution using the method you outlined below plus... USING MAPINFO TABLES I calculated the number of individual column values using the HISTOGRAM class and then read those values into a Vector. FYI for everyone out there: The column you wish to Thematically Map in

Re: MI Dont worry Elias (MAPINFO-L)

This is a nice word. I do hope this also be the community perception for this kind of 'technical problem'. GATOT PURNOMO - GEOINFO Tel. 62-21-82413187, Fax. 8200167 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: E.O.Kofod [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ELIAS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL