Hello Carl,
From my experience the 'save window as' does not operate very well unless you have a descent graphics card with heaps of memory.
The size of the video card memory will be a major factor in the size of the image file you can create, unless you buy some thrid party product.
For the map size you mention I have managed to reproduce a 250 dpi TIFF file, but that was on a PC with 500 meg RAM and a 64 meg video card. File size around 300 meg. With a reasonable system you should be able to produce a 96 dpi (default) image. The 'save window as' option was significantly improved in MapInfo 7.
I've found that Acrobat starts having problems with large maps, unless you choose a lower resolution such as 72dpi.
Hope this helps.
Roger
Roger Ling
GIS Technical Officer
Parks & Wildlife Service
Department of Tourism, Parks, Heritage & the Arts
GPO Box 44
Hobart Tasmania 7001
Australia
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| "Carl Schaefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
25/10/2002 06:42 AM
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To: mapInfo-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: MI-L Print large maps as image files from MapInfo? |
Hello all,
We have several large sized maps (36X48in) that we want to
distribute as images (TIFF, PDF whatever) for those without
MapInfo. The "Save window as.." feature doesn't cut it at these
large map sizes and going the PDF route doesn't seem to work for
our transparent rasters (i.e. Acrobat 4 turns them opaque...ugh!).
Has anyone come up with a solution to this? Am I missing some
tweak in Acrobat? How about some print file to TIFF converter?!?!
One solution is to scan the maps after they have printed, but this
seems dumb given the digital world the maps started in.
Thanks,
Carl
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Carl Schaefer
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Northern Associates, Inc.
Fairbanks, Alaska
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