RE: MI exporting layout to wmf files

2000-09-22 Thread Lindsay Giles
that it has not been fixed. MapInfo apparently calculates the text size in a layout for wmf in relation to the size of the window. I have had good results when following this process. Bonne chance, Lindsay Giles Senior GIS Analyst AXYS Environmental Consulting Ltd Suite 600-555 4th Ave. SW Calgary, AB

RE: MI - E-size maps in layout going to PDF files

2000-09-21 Thread Lindsay Giles
send more details of my setup BTW, I haven't had much luck printing large images and vectors from AkeView - but why bother when MapInfo works...just a personal rant for a Thursday... Cheers, Lindsay Giles Senior GIS Analyst AXYS Environmental Consulting Ltd Suite 600-555 4th Ave. SW Calgary,

RE: MI Vanishing north symbols

2000-09-06 Thread Lindsay Giles
. Hope this helps... Cheers, Lindsay Giles Senior GIS Analyst AXYS Environmental Consulting Ltd Suite 600-555 4th Ave. SW Calgary, AB CANADA T2P 3E7 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main Office:403-269-5150 Direct Line:403-750-7671 Fax:403-269-5245 Visit our web site at http

RE: MI using workspaces across a W98 peer to peer network

2000-08-22 Thread Lindsay Giles
same on all machines. We did this in the good old days when our network was WFWG3.1 and before we had a dedicated file server. We eventually ran out of drive letters, but it worked for a couple of years... Good luck! Lindsay Giles Senior GIS Analyst AXYS Environmental Consulting Ltd Suite 600

RE: MI How to save thematic layer

2000-08-16 Thread Lindsay Giles
e the colour changes to suit. Hope this helps... Lindsay Giles Senior GIS Analyst AXYS Environmental Consulting Ltd Suite 600-555 4th Ave. SW Calgary, AB T2P 3E7 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main Office:403-269-5150 Direct Line:403-750-7671 Fax:403-269-5245 Visit

MI Looking for Animal Fonts or Font tools in general

2000-08-01 Thread Lindsay Giles
editor (and have extensively in the past) but at the cost of flexibility - you can only use the results in MI while the TTF version can be used in MI and elsewhere. Thanks all, Lindsay Giles Senior GIS Analyst AXYS Environmental Consulting Ltd Suite 600-555 4th Ave. SW Calgary, AB T2P 3E7 e

RE: MI Help with Canadian Provincial Abbreviations

2000-07-25 Thread Lindsay Giles
Hello Dara- 1) The correct spelling for it is "Nunavut" 2) To the best of my knowledge, they are both NT - all addresses I have seen within Nunavut carry NT as their descriptor. I could be wrong but I have not seen any other code. Lindsay Giles Senior GIS Analyst AXYS Env

RE: MI Help with Canadian Provincial Abbreviations

2000-07-25 Thread Lindsay Giles
Hi again - Checking into it a little further I find that Canada Post lists NT for both Northwest Territories and Nunavut. If NU is Nunavut, what is the source for that? Canad Post link: http://www.canadapost.ca/CPC2/addrm/addrguide/prov_symbols.html Lindsay Giles -Original Message

RE: MI - line tool thrown a wobbly

2000-06-22 Thread Lindsay Giles
Hi - That's the behaviour of a Ctrl-drag with the line tool. Was any other application displaying symptoms of Ctrl-Click behaviour? When you say a reboot of MI, do mean a reboot of the machine or a restart of MI? What o/s? Lindsay Giles Senior GIS Analyst AXYS Environmental Consulting Ltd

RE: MI Help with Coordinate system

2000-06-19 Thread Lindsay Giles
Hi Jack - Have you tried this: Set Coordsys Table "KnownPositions" instead of setting the coordsys from the window? If the projection of the window doesn't match the projection of the table into which you are inserting the point, the point may well be off the map. Cheers, Lin

RE: MI HELP!

2000-06-15 Thread Lindsay Giles
es' eye, I have never suffered from any wrist/arm disorders (I won't talk about any lingering mental disorders...). Happily converted southpaw, Lindsay Giles Senior GIS Analyst AXYS Environmental Consulting Ltd Suite 600-555 4th Ave. SW Calgary, AB T2P 3E7 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] M

MI RE: Infotips/ToolTips

2000-06-14 Thread Lindsay Giles
move them down or turn their selectability off. Cheers, Lindsay Giles Senior GIS Analyst AXYS Environmental Consulting Ltd Suite 600-555 4th Ave. SW Calgary, AB T2P 3E7 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main Office:403-269-5150 Direct Line:403-750-7671 Fax:403-269-5245 Visit

MI Quirky point font printing...

2000-06-12 Thread Lindsay Giles
same layout, either. This fails too: Start MapInfo. Open Layout A Print it. Print is OK. Open Layout B Print it. Symbols print incorrectly. This has been a pain for a while - I've always worked around it. My particulars: MI 4.5 NT 4 SP5. TIA Lindsay Giles Senior GIS Analyst AXYS Environm

RE: MI MapInfo and Windows 2000

2000-06-06 Thread Lindsay Giles
that came with the install. The users could not read and write the registry keys that were defined at install time under administrative priviledges. My CDN$0.02 worth is that it the other two are permissions issues. Lindsay Giles Senior GIS Analyst AXYS Environmental Consulting Ltd Suite 600-555 4th

RE: MI *.pdf format

2000-05-30 Thread Lindsay Giles
Dave - You will have to use Adobe acrobat distiller to generate the PDF file. You use a PostScript printer driver to print the layout to a file and Distiller creates a PDF file from that PS print file. Cheers, Lindsay Giles Senior GIS Analyst AXYS Environmental Consulting Ltd Suite 600-555

RE: MI MapInfo Graphics

2000-05-30 Thread Lindsay Giles
of rotated text. Corel 7 will take a text string rotated 35 degrees and rotate each letter 35 degrees around its individual centre while leaving the text string itself at zero degrees (horozontal). Keeping these in mind, I have had consistent results. Lindsay Giles Senior GIS Analyst AXYS

RE: MI Help!!! how to translate Arc/Info GRID image to be used in MapInfo

2000-05-26 Thread Lindsay Giles
writes export routines to save in their competitors' format, or publishes file formats - except ESRI. Lindsay Giles Senior GIS Analyst AXYS Environmental Consulting Ltd Suite 600-555 4th Ave. SW Calgary, AB T2P 3E7 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main Office:403-269-5150 Direct Line

RE: MI Create points

2000-05-16 Thread Lindsay Giles
Points. Regards, Lindsay Giles Senior GIS Analyst AXYS Environmental Consulting Ltd Suite 600-555 4th Ave. SW Calgary, AB T2P 3E7 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main Office:403-269-5150 Direct Line:403-750-7671 Fax:403-269-5245 Visit our web site at http://www.axys.net

RE: MI MB: Accuracy of Centroidx / ObjectGeography Return Values

2000-05-15 Thread Lindsay Giles
e?) We get around it by storing data in UTM or Alberta 10TM projections. If you create a float field and populate it with centroidx(obj), you will only see the output rounded to 3 places. Change the field to Decimal 12,6 and it will show all those places. Hope this helps... Lindsay Giles Senior G

RE: MI Frame shape

2000-05-15 Thread Lindsay Giles
that area as the clip region and discard the object. The map contents will only show within that shape. Multiple or overlapping frames can be inserted into the layout in the same way and are controlled using send to front/back. Lindsay Giles Senior GIS Analyst AXYS Environmental Consulting Ltd Suite

RE: MI Uncombine polygons

2000-03-13 Thread Lindsay Giles
, but with the complex regions built as individual polygons. All the data remains intact and the islands are recreated. The translator is a little cranky if your data is not clean, that is, with bow-ties and figure 8s, but if it is clean, it seems to work OK. Hope this helps. Lindsay Giles Senior GIS

RE: MI sub does not match declare

2000-03-06 Thread Lindsay Giles
Tim - Make sure that your declare statement: Declare Sub IsTableOpen(ByVal MyTable_str as string) matches your definition statement: Sub IsTableOpen . . . End Sub Yours should read: Sub IsTableOpen(ByVal MyTable_str as string) Lindsay Giles Senior GIS Analyst AXYS