Hi Declan
I have had excellent luck printing to a pdf, with the exception of some
bitmaps. We actually produce about 20% of our final output in pdf files and
it makes my life _much_ easier. My clients like it, too, because they can
reprint (to various printers) as often as they want. The PDF writer also
allows you to build documents from multiple sources - pretty cool if you
need a map in a report.
A couple of comments:
1) You need to get the latest edition of Adobe Acrobat (4.0x) - 3.0 does not
work nearly as well.
2) Bitmapped images in a layout window sometimes come out a bit ragged.
However, raster underlays in maps seem to work just fine.
3) You will need to tinker a bit to get the right output settings.
Overall, I strongly recommend using pdf files - they do a good job and make
your maps very transportable.
Regards,
James
James L Marlow
Director, Geographic Information Systems
Channel Marketing Corporation
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-----Original Message-----
From: Declan Troy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 1:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: MI MapInfo to pdf
Mappers,
Anyone with positive comments about printing layouts (map windows) to pdf
files using Acrobat. Do the pdf files look pretty true to the originals?
Does printed output of the pdf file compare well with printing direct from
MapInfo? I've yet to try it but it seems that combining pdf files might be
a good way to get map illustrations into reports with reasonable quality
(better than saving windows as files) if the map pdfs retain printer
quality.
Declan
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