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Murray, Just to
add my two cents worth on labels… Caliper
has been aware of this problem for several years, they just have not figured
out how to fix it. My best success
has been to use manual labels, double click on the label, and then select the “Keep
text size fixed” box (this is how I use labels in TransCad). This almost always keeps the labels in
the same place when placing the map in a layout, and when printing. Mike
McCann Central
Ohio Transit Authority Columbus,
OH -----Original
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http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html Hi Michael and Carl, Thanks so much for your
input, it's good (in a way!) to know that others have had similar problems.
Carl, your answers make a lot of sense re: printer memory and spooling. Now
that you mention it, I recall that errors related to "spool32" or
some such have been often related to my printing problem. I have disabled my
spooling now, and although printing from Maptitude still locks up, it's
different than in the past, so I guess that's progress. Also, Carl, on your reply
re: my item 2 on labels, you say "group them all together and place where
wanted". I'm not quite sure of your meaning. I've normally had to place my
labels in my "best guess" location to have them printed where I want
them printed, then go through one or two print/adjust iterations to end up with
the labels precisely where I need them. Is that along the lines of your
suggestion, or do you have additional insight? Thanks again for your
help. Murray Rice Altavision Geographics Tel: (800) 436-3632 /
(306) 955-4722 Fax: (306) 955-4723 ----- Original Message
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09, 2001 8:33 AM Subject: RE: [Maptitude]
Printer lock-ups and foul-ups Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
Murray, I think answer to
number five is printer out of memory; I have same problem with large aerial
photos. For number two I
have same problems with all annotation(north arrow, labels etc), seems to
help if group them all together and place
where wanted. Number one could be
printer memory or hard drive memory for spooling. I had to set my HP
plotter settings to print immediately and not
spool the print job. This is not much
help but is all the advice I can give. Good Luck Carl L. Chance -----Original
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http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html I'm wondering if any of
you have experienced difficulties printing from Maptitude 4.0. In the past,
I've found Maptitude to be the one application of mine that sometimes has
problems printing to my HP DeskJet 1000C and Adobe Acrobat PDF Writer 3.0
in Windows 98 (I also use Office 97 and have had no problems printing
to either the HP or PDF). I'll offer a partial
list of some difficulties, in the hope that some other Maptitude users may
have encountered the same (sorry about the length of this, but I thought this
might be of interest to some): 1. occasional
lock-ups when printing layouts (usually not just straight maps), most often to
my HP, but also a couple of times to Acrobat; these have occurred maybe 10%-20%
of the time over the last year or two. 2. differences in
manual label locations "on screen" vs. "on the
printed page" (i.e. a place name shifted to the left or right
between the two, sometimes by the length of the word). This occurs in printing
to both the HP printer and the Acrobat PDF Writer; in Acrobat, the
differences between Maptitude and the PDF file can still be seen
while still viewing the PDF on screen in Acrobat. 3. an inability to
have cross-hatching in Maptitude maps show up at all in PDF files created
by Maptitude via the PDF Writer 4. in printing PDF
files from Acrobat (file generated originally by Maptitude), color reversals in
a small number of seemingly random polygons (e.g. sales areas, census tracts)
but perfect in the rest of the map (the PDF files look fine on
screen, the problem occurs when printing from Acrobat) 5. in printing a
very large PDF file (generated by Maptitude) to a 42" inch width page, the
disappearance of all map features except labels 3/4 of the way down the printed
page (with the upper part of the page printing beautifully); note, this is
printing a PDF directly from Acrobat to an HP DesignJet 1050C. Again, the PDF
viewed perfectly on screen, but printed with the same flaw three times. I should note, I've
reinstalled Maptitude, my HP printer driver, Acrobat, and Windows at
least twice each, with no success. I've also tried
installing Maptitude and the HP printer driver on a completely
different machine, with similar problems. Over the weekend, after printing
three layouts I could not print anything from Maptitude to my HP printer
without a complete lock up, despite reinstallations of Maptitude and the
printer driver (other packages still print perfectly). I can currently print
from Maptitude to Acrobat PDF Writer the same as before, which is the only
thing keeping me and my clients happy right now! I realize that some of
these problems could be the fault of the printer driver and Adobe Acrobat (as
in perhaps #4 above), but I'm frustrated that Maptitude is the only application
I have that has acted this way in printing. Anyone had any similar
problems? Of even more interest, any solutions? Murray Rice Altavision Geographics Tel: (800) 436-3632 /
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