Hi Harry,
I have also heard that the American market does not print to scale. I still
find that statement hard to believe, printing to scale is the the biggets
complaint I get from my users, everyone wants to be able to do it and they
all get very frustrated with the scale conversion method. So we commisioned
someone to write a plotting routine, which helps but is not as slick as we
would like. At the moment we are looking into buying a bolt on tool like
'Easyplot' for our mapinfo users (about 50 in PCC) and 'Proprinter' for our
pro-viewer users, though my clients find it hard to accept they have to pay
extra for this basic facility.
I keep hoping that one day Mapinfo will not think of the non-American market
as being a second class citizen and gives us a useable (even if very basic)
WYSIWYG plotting facility.
Malcolm Norman
a disgruntled plotter
Portsmouth City Council
UK
>From: Harry Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "'Mapinfo User List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: MI Scaling maps for layouts
>Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 09:56:23 +0100
>
>Hello all.
>
>I know this is an age old topic but was wondering if anyone had any
>comments. Basically it involves printing from layout windows to scale. I
>remember a User Group meeting a few years back where Lazlo Bardos was in
>attendance, and was asked about this to which he replied that it was not
>something the American users really needed to do, so was never tackled!
>
>Anyway, after many months of typing '333' in the Zoom box for A4, for the
>last few years I've been using a bolt on application from a reseller to
>achieve scale printing. I would like to know: Do most users use a bolt on
>module, write their own code or is there another solution? Does anyone
>have
>any opinions about this?
>
>Have a good weekend everyone,
>
>Harry
>
>Harry Bell
>GIS Project Manager
>East Dorset District Council
>
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