RE: MI exporting layout to wmf files
Bonjour Laurent - Try this: Make sure the layout window is not maximised Resize the layout window so that it is just a little larger than the layout frame Save the layout again as wmf and the text should resize properly. This is the way it has worked for earlier versions so I assume 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 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://www.axys.net -Original Message- From: laurent Frilleux [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 7:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:MI exporting layout to wmf files hello and sorry for my bad english i am working with mapinfo 6 and i have a problem to export layout to wmf files the text in the layout are outside the frames but when i print these layouts the text are styaing inside these frames. mi screen is an iiyama 19' and the resolution is 1280*1024 when i use a 17' screen with 1024*768 i don't have problems my graphics cards is a matrox millenium g400 agp matrox technical support indicate me that the card is ok, mapinfo technical support in france (adde) told me the contrary what can i do to solve this problem ? Thanks Laurent Frilleux STRATEGIS SA Zolad Mini Parc, Bat 2 912 rue de la Croix Verte 34198 MONTPELLIER Cedex 5 04-67-41-68-41 File: ATT4.htm -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MI - E-size maps in layout going to PDF files
Hi Jeff - It sounds like you need to use a postscript driver (available from Adobe free) and PPD file that supports E-size output, like the HP650C or 750C driver (the PPD is also available from Adobe's site). I am using the Adobe HP650C PS driver on NT4 SP6a with FreePDF (http://over.to/freepdf) and it works like a charm. I have also used Distiller 3 and it also work well for E-size. The standard PPD for the 650C gives only 5 custom options for 36" - 60, 72, 84, 96 and 108" but if you edited the PPD file you can add some more sizes. Hope this helps - if necessary, I can 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, 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://www.axys.net -Original Message- From: Jeff Reid [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 3:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Reid, Jeff Subject:MI - E-size maps in layout going to PDF files Dear fellow MI users: I am unable to create a PDF file of a map with dimensions of 36" x 75" from a MI5.5 file. I am using Acrobat 4.0. What I found was the full layout would not convert to a PDF file. Rather, no matter what we tried, when Acrobat 4.0 was invoked, the layout reverted to 8.5" x 11" sheets. This results in the map being cut up into 8.5" x 11" sheets. I tried both Acrobat Distiller and the standard document option without success. I feel that the problem can be overcome if there is a way to convert the layout to a post script file. We did not encounter this problem when using ArcView on similar files. I am stumped. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Note: I am about to install version 6.0; are there any options in that version that would overcome the problem? Thank you! Jeff Reid N.C. Geological Survey 1612 Mail Service Center Raleigh, N.C. (USA) (919) 733-2423 (eastern) - voice (919) 733-0900 (facsimile) http://www.geology.enr.state.nc.us -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MI Vanishing north symbols
Hi Bob - If you are opening the metafiles on another machine without MapInfo installed, the problem is one of font substitution - the # sign subs for the North arrow symbol. (Try it - change the font file without changing the symbol number and the # appears) The fix for this is to ensure that the same font files are present on each machine. There is another problem if this occurs on the same machine on which MapInfo is installed. I occasionally get this when opening and printing the second and subsequent workspaces (the first prints OK, the 2nd, 3rd, etc have font substitutions). I do not know why this is happening but it only happens with certain fonts, namely MapInfo Arrows and MapInfo Symbols. Changing to other TrueType fonts cures the problem. If you are putting your metafiles into PowerPoint files, try using the Embed TrueType checkbox when saving for the first time. 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://www.axys.net -Original Message- From: Bob Hudson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 1:53 PM To: MapInfo List Subject:MI Vanishing north symbols Our version of MapInfo 5.5 has a drop box with various NORTH symbols in the symbols preferences. I made several maps using one that said NORTH with an elongated wedge above it pointing upward/north. When I saved the finished products via Save Window as windows metafiles the maps were fine, except that the north symbols saved as hatch marks, or hash marks as most people insist on calling them. Can anyone suggest why this would happen? Bob Hudson Archaeology Department, University of Sydney. --- Home pages: Archaeology at Bagan, Myanmar Buddhist Art and Archaeology: http://www.archaeology.usyd.edu.au/~hudson/bobhpage -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MI using workspaces across a W98 peer to peer network
Hi - Try using UNC pathnames (\\machinename\resource\folder\etc) rather than mapped drive letters. To do this, go to the network neighborhood and browse until you find the share name that is your machine. Navigate to the resources you want to use and create your workspace. When you save your workspace, navigate again through the network neighborhood to find the place where you wish to save your workspace and save it. The tables will be prefaced with the UNC pathnames. This will allow others to open the workspaces without identical drive mappings. To save existing workspaces that have hard drive/path names like C:\ in them, replace all the "c:\" entries with "\\machine\resource" for example, if your machine is called "dave" and the share for the C drive is "C", replace "C:\" with "\\dave\C\". The other solution is to assign a consistent drive mapping convention and stick to it, like everyone has a C:\ drive, plus maybe a Zip and a cd or two, and maybe another hard drive - so start your mapping at I or something so that Dave is I, Mary is J, and Saddam is K or whatever. That way, the K drive will be the 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 600-555 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 -Original Message- From: Tim Warman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 2:57 PM To: Mapinfo-L Subject:MI using workspaces across a W98 peer to peer network [] Listers, Has anyone run into the problem of sharing workspaces that were created on one machine, across a W98 peer-to-peer network? The problem is that all the file paths in the workspaces start with C:\, and of course that's not how the other machines on the network see my hard drive. I sure someone has dealt with this before. Cheers, _ Tim Warman Geologist GIS Specialist Richard C. Slade Associates North Hollywood, CA (818) 506-0418 -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MI How to save thematic layer
Hi Gert - What about putting a column in that carries a city ID - populate that column with an identifier on which you can select points related to individual cities. If you can't currently save your query in the workspace, it was probably a selection based on the Marquee or radius select tool which doesn't allow saving into a workspace. Selection on a column using Select or SQL Select is saved in the workspace so the results are repeatable. If you change all your point styles beforehand in the table itself (ie circles, squares and triangles for different types of points or a range of different point sizes) and not thematically, it makes the job a little easier. To set the colours, map the table thematically, but apply "Color" not "All Attributes" from the Styles tab in the thematic dialog and the symbol type will stay as is is set in the file while 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 our web site at http://www.axys.net -Original Message- From: Brorsen, Gert [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 1:51 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:MI How to save thematic layer OK.. here is what I'm trying to do I have a table of points covering the whole country, and I need to do "individual point" thematic maps of these points on a City by City basis. I don't want to cut my national point table into 52 individual table and then have to update them all whenever a change is made to the national table, and I don't want to do the thematic on the national table either, because only a handful of the point values are relevant to each city, leaving about 100 irrelevant point values to be turned off in the legend for each city , so.. it would be ideal if I could do the thematic on a selection of only the points relevant to each city, but the selection does not get saved with the workspace (unlike a query), so the thematic layer is *gone* next time the workspace is opened. I am sure I'm not the first one to come across this situation, so I am hoping that there is a half way sane solution to it. Also... is there a way to change the size of all the "individual point" styles, without having to do them individually?? Any and all suggestions gratefully accepted. Gert gbrorsen*at*visionstream.com.au I'll just go back to tearing my hair out now.. =O\ ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. ** -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MI Looking for Animal Fonts or Font tools in general
Hi listers - I am looking for TrueType or equivalent Windows font files with animal symbols in them - things like bison (buffalo), wolverines, marten and grizzly bears - not the standard horses ducks chickens thing. I have a couple of fonts from Microsoft - Animals1 and Animals2 but they don't cover all the species I need. I also need birds and fish... My request: 1: Anyone know where I can find these font files with relatively obscure species in them? Or 2: Anyone know of font tools I can use to create these files myself (either free/shareware or $$ware)? I could use the symbol 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-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 -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MI Help with Canadian Provincial Abbreviations
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 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 -Original Message- From: Thompson, Dara L. (RyTull) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 8:55 AM To: 'MapInfo-L' Subject:MI Help with Canadian Provincial Abbreviations Hello all. I hope someone can help me. I am adding a 2-character field to the "Cncty_3k" file to identify the Canadian Province (or Territory). As my source for the 2-digit code, I am using the "Province" column in the "Canada" table. I believe that both tables are the supplied with MapInfo. Here are the problems: 1). The "Cncty_3k" file says that the provincial name is "Nunvaut". The "Canada" file says that it is spelled "Nunavut". Which is correct? 2). The "Canada" file says that the abbreviation for Nunavut is "NT". That is the same abbreviation for the Northwest Territories. Can someone tell me what the abbreviation is for the Northwest Territories as well as the Nuvaut Territory? Thanks! -Dara Thompson -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MI Help with Canadian Provincial Abbreviations
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- From: John Chioles [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 11:47 AM To: 'Lindsay Giles'; 'Thompson, Dara L. (RyTull)'; 'MapInfo-L' Subject:RE: MI Help with Canadian Provincial Abbreviations According to my sources 1) Nunavut is correct 2) NU is the abbreviation -Original Message- From: Lindsay Giles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 12:13 PM To: 'Thompson, Dara L. (RyTull)'; 'MapInfo-L' Subject: RE: MI Help with Canadian Provincial Abbreviations 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 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 -Original Message- From: Thompson, Dara L. (RyTull) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 8:55 AM To: 'MapInfo-L' Subject:MI Help with Canadian Provincial Abbreviations Hello all. I hope someone can help me. I am adding a 2-character field to the "Cncty_3k" file to identify the Canadian Province (or Territory). As my source for the 2-digit code, I am using the "Province" column in the "Canada" table. I believe that both tables are the supplied with MapInfo. Here are the problems: 1). The "Cncty_3k" file says that the provincial name is "Nunvaut". The "Canada" file says that it is spelled "Nunavut". Which is correct? 2). The "Canada" file says that the abbreviation for Nunavut is "NT". That is the same abbreviation for the Northwest Territories. Can someone tell me what the abbreviation is for the Northwest Territories as well as the Nuvaut Territory? Thanks! -Dara Thompson -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MI - line tool thrown a wobbly
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 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 -Original Message- From: Tom Manson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 7:35 AM To: 'MapInfo' Subject:MI - line tool thrown a wobbly MI-L'ers, A colleague of mine was trying to draw a line (using the line tool) from one point to another. The problem was, MI drew the line from the centre outwards, much like the radius/marquee select tool. It was almost as if it wanted to draw a circle but only with a line. All very strange. Anyway, a reboot of MI solved the problem, but why should this happen in the first place? Has anyone else experienced this before? Answers on a postcard to Tom -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MI Help with Coordinate system
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, 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 -Original Message- From: Jack MacDonald [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 1:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:MI Help with Coordinate system My application in MapBasic 4.5 is driving me crazy, and I would really appreciate some help. I am reasonably certain the problem is with getting the correct CoordSys, but after many hours, I still can't figure it out. The concept is that the user selects a point from the SurveyedTrails table. I want to grab the XY coordinates of the selected point, and create a new point in the KnownLocations table using the same XY coordinates. The new point is created when the user clicks a button in a dialog box that Calls FixedPoint(). I have tried saving a Global oPoint object, saving the XY coordinates in Global variables, and every other combination that I can think of. At first, the points were created at the wrong location, now I can't find them at all. Please help! *** global fEasting as float global fNorthing as float global iHour as Integer global iMinute as Integer global iSecond as Integer global iNodeID as Integer global hWnd as Integer global oPoint as Object sub FixedPoint dim oNewPoint as object set coordsys window hWnd oNewPoint = createPoint(centroidx(oPoint),centroidy(oPoint)) Insert into KnownPositions (Obj, SampleSetID, NodeID, Hour, Minute, Second) values (oNewPoint, iSampleSetID, iNodeID, iHour, iMinute, iSecond) end sub sub SelChangedHandler dim sTableName as string dim iRow as Integer iRow = SelectionInfo(SEL_INFO_NROWS) If iRow 1 then ' note "Wrong number of objects selected" exit sub end if sTableName = SelectionInfo(SEL_INFO_TABLENAME) do case sTableName case "GPSSample" iHour = selection.hour iMinute = selection.minute iSecond = selection.second close table tableinfo(0,TAB_INFO_NAME) case "SurveyedTrails" hWnd = frontwindow() set coordsys window hWnd oPoint = selection.obj fNorthing = selection.northing fEasting = selection.easting iNodeID = selection.nodeID close table tableinfo(0,TAB_INFO_NAME) call CreateGPSTrailsDialog case else ' print "neither of the two target tables" end case end sub Jack MacDonald, Senior Researcher, Harvesting Operations Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada Vancouver, BC Canada (604) 228-1555 FAX (604) 228-0999 -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MI HELP!
Good call! I switched about 7 years ago to a left-handed mouse because the keyboard itself is not configured efficiently for GIS or other technical applications. Anything requiring numeric input means that a right-handed mouser needs to continually move the right hand back and forth from the mouse to the numeric keypad - a real pain in more ways than one. For those who maintain that they "just couldn't" mouse left-handed, you would be amazed how quickly you become proficient. It helps your work flow, and, since doing this full time since Win 3.0 was a gleam in Bill Gates' 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] Main Office:403-269-5150 Direct Line:403-750-7671 Fax:403-269-5245 -Original Message- From: Mark Knudsen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 9:34 PM To: 'Vicky Higgins'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: MI HELP! Vicky, Sorry to hear about your problem. I am not being facetious, but I would suggest to everyone who suffers from hand/wrist problems when mousing to try switching hands. It is amazing that we use our right (or left) hands for something like using the mouse simply because we are right (left) handed. I was suffering from aches, pains, tingling, weakness, etc in the right wrist and hand so switched to mousing with the left hand - it wasn't all that difficult. Not only does this shift relieve the right hand of all the wear and tear, but leaves it free for those often used keys such as Enter and Delete. It can even reduce the stresses on the mouse hand because you can usually press Enter instead of having to click on OK (although of course MapInfo has several areas where this is a pain as well!). One suggestion that might reduce the strain is to look at the voice activated systems that allow you to operate menus verbally - I guess you will still need something to point with, but it may reduce the strain. Good luck Mark Knudsen __ Veitch Lister Consulting Pty LtdPhone: +61 3 9427 7400 Suite 14663 Victoria Street Fax: +61 3 9427 0481 ABBOTSFORD VIC 3067 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ -Original Message- From: Vicky Higgins Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 9:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:MI HELP! I have been mapping with MapInfo for 3+ years. While I use a light grip on my Intellimouse, the hours-days-weeks-months-years have taken their toll. I have cause some irreparable nerve damage to my right arm. Has anyone used, or know of any, alternatives to a mouse? I have looked at the "Smart Cat" by Cirque, but it appears to still require some hand-draping over the device. If there is any help out there, I would greatly appreciate it. Vicky Higgins Atlanta -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MI RE: Infotips/ToolTips
Hi Todd - Change the label settings under layer control to the airport name field, just don't turn on the autolabel toggle. This works for any label setting, including expressions. The infotip uses the first selectable layer that has an object under the cursor. If othe rlayers come up, either 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 our web site at http://www.axys.net -Original Message- From: McNeil, Todd W. (TMCNEIL) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 9:58 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:MI: Infotips/ToolTips Has anyone been able to succesfully write a mousover function to be able to see, say the name of the airport instead of the ICAO code? The user can torn on/off the default infotips setting, but it is linked to whatever label is turned on at the time of use. Thanks, Todd McNeil GIS Specialist Aeronautical Radio, Inc. Annapolis, MD P: 410.266.2302 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MI Quirky point font printing...
G'Day list - Anyone else run into this? I open and print a layout containing points in the "Mapinfo Symbols" font in both mapper and layout windows and the print comes out correctly. If I print it again, the points in the "Mapinfo Symbols" font come out mapped to a different font - for example, filled circles map to the # sign. This does not happen to other points in other fonts in the layout/map windows - they stay correct. The workaround is just to open the layout in a new MapInfo session and then close immediately - but that is a pain. It isn't confined to the 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 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MI MapInfo and Windows 2000
Hi - Can't give specifics on Win2K+MI 5.x but the tool manager issue sounds suspiciously like the tool manager issue that cropped up with MI 4.5 and NT4 - it worked as an administrator but not as a user. The fix was tooltabl.dll supplied by MapInfo, it replaced the version of the file 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 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 -Original Message- From: Mansour Shoari [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 1:25 PM To: 'MapInfo Users' Net' Subject:MI MapInfo and Windows 2000 Hello MI List, I have a test platform in our organization running Windows 2000, testing our softwares. I just had a fresh full installation of MapInfo 5.0 and upgraded to 5.0.1 via the patch. MapInfo works fine under the Local Administrator (Administrator for the machine), but not under any other user. here are the problems I am having. 1. From Tools dropdown menu, Tool Manager box is completely blank (not even one item displayed) 2. When trying to close and exit the application, an error message pops out saying; "unable to save work space" 3. and finally MapInfo closes with this massage; "Error writing preferences file" Has anyone installed and worked with MapInfo 5.01 under Windows 2000 professional? Have you experienced any problem with installing or running a particular module of MapInfo? mansour shoari Monopros limited Toronto, Canada -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MI *.pdf format
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 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 -Original Message- From: David Eagle [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 9:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:MI *.pdf format Dear all... Having made a few maps to slip neatly into a report I find the printers would like the maps in *.pdf format. I have searched through the 'Save Window As' routine but to no avail! Does anyone know if MapInfo supports .pdf and how I can go about saving my plans in that format? Thanks, Dave _ David A. Eagle WS Atkins Consultants - East Anglia Wellbrook Court, Girton Road, Cambridge, CB3 0NA. Direct Dial Tel: (01223) 814090, Fax: (01223) 277529 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MI MapInfo Graphics
Hi all - I have been getting excellent results by using WMF format rather than a raster image. I am using 4.5 on NT4. There are a few provisos: 1. Set clipping on, if necessary, to restrict display of vectors to the map window only, otherwise the rest of the linework finds its way into the metafile, then into the other application (Word, Powerpoint, Corel, etc) 2. Resize the layout window (don't maximize it) to display the layout window contents only - ie don't have a layout window that is so large as to have a lot of blank space in it that is outside the printed area of the page. The text that is generated in the WMF file is scaled based on the window size and can appear distorted and oversize if the layout window is too big. 3. Don't use transparent fill patterns if you can avoid it - these don't always transfer to the other application transparently. 4. Watch the use 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 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 -Original Message- From: Schelbach Karen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 8:13 PM To: MapInfo News Group (E-mail) Subject:MI MapInfo Graphics Hello everyone, I'm trying to save a MI layout as a clear, quality graphic which can be imported into a MS word document. I have tried saving the MI layout in various formats (jpeg, png, bmp, tiff, and gif) then importing straight into Word. Each format loses clarity and ends up very grainy and a different colour as to MI. I've also tried using PaintShop to sharpen the tiff im age, then compressed it to a smaller file size, but still end up with the same grainy results. I just can't seem to get the map graphic to retain quality once taken out of MI. Can anyone help? thank you! Karen. -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MI Help!!! how to translate Arc/Info GRID image to be used in MapInfo
Hi folks - Having just been through this, I may have a solution, although a bit kludgey. I had ArcInfo/ArcView grid files which I needed to display in MI. My first thought was convert to shapefile in AV spatial analyst and import into MI but there were a few problems. First, the shapefile translation process generalizes the data a bit, but I could live with that. Second, the resulting shapefile does not seem to be topologically valid, even for ArcView. It will display in AV, but that's about it. I had little success with Universal Translator, Blue Marble's Geographic Explorer or the old shapelink to bring it into MI - MIF or TAB. AutoCAD 14 allowed it to translate successfully, but the resulting product was impossible to work with. What seemed to fail in the translation was that some of the polygons were too complex to be created. Another way out was to export the grid from AV into an ASCII file and then convert that to a point file in MI and regrid it in Vertical Mapper. For 2,000,000 points it wasn't worth it. Neither was writing a reformatter to turn the ASCII file into a USGS DEM file which could be imported by VM. The final method was to capture the image as a graphic and then register it in MI. AV gives a few options in this, but with some pitfalls. Thw WMF options were useable, but they weren't importable into MI. The BMP option seemed to be the optimal choice, but the colours came out mangled - on further checking, this seems to be a documented problem with AV. Working down the list, I tried PostScript output next (I didn't want to lose too much resolution in the process) but the output was monochrome. The next one I tried was CGM Binary (Computer Graphics Metafile). This worked well - it maintained the resolution and the colours were carried over exactly. The only twist is that I had to bring this into Corel 7 and export it as a TIFF. I registered it in MI as a raster image and it worked fine. My conclusion from all this was my belief that ESRI products were never designed to share their data easily - everyone and their dog 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:403-750-7671 Fax:403-269-5245 Visit our web site at http://www.axys.net -Original Message- From: Tony Elson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 7:38 PM To: xiaoping gong; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: MI Help!!! how to translate Arc/Info GRID image to be used in MapInfo [] +AD4- Hello, there +AD4- +AD4- I have a Arc/Info Grid image which is a fold of files and I'd like to be +AD4- used in MapInfo as either Grid layer or Vector layer. I have tried +AD4- ArcLink but it seems ArcLink does not support GRID format. It simply +AD4- skips the GRD section in +ACo-.E00 file where has all raster data. +AD4- So Is there anyone over there know any solution for that? +AD4- Thanks in advance. +AD4- You could try using ArcView with 3D Analyst if it is available to you. You can convert the grid to a shapefile which I think if memory serves me correctly, will create the cells as polygons. The Universal Translator should do the rest for you. Can you also not try to convert the grid to a vector file from within ArcInfo itself, than translate the .e00 fiel? Don't know if this helps. Regards - Tony Elson GIS Consultant File: ATT0.txt; charset = UTF-7 -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MI Create points
Hello Jure - Just select the points in the mapper (make it editable) then Edit--Clear Map Objects Only, then rerun Create Points on the correct columns; Or Table--Maintenance--Table Structure on the table and unselect the Table is Mappable box. This will clear the slate, then rerun Create 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 -Original Message- From: Jure Ravnik [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 7:43 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:MI Create points Hi listers, I've created a native MI table with Name XY columns. The projection is NonEarth. When I ran "Create Point" I choose wrong columns for X and Y. Instead of X=X I chose X=Y and Y=X. Running "Create Points" again doesn't move the locations of points. I know I can export to TXT and back to a new table. Must I really do this? Thanks, Jure Ravnik Ecological Engineering Institute Ljubljanska 9 2000 Maribor Slovenia Tel:+ 386 2 300 48 11 Fax:+ 386 2 300 48 35 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MI MB: Accuracy of Centroidx / ObjectGeography Return Values
Hi Mike - The decimals are there, just truncated. Select a point, then type this in the MapBasic window... note format$(centroidx(selection.obj),"###.") I don't know why it does it but I think there was something to that effect posted some time ago (Jacques Paris, maybe?) 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 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 -Original Message- From: Mike Haden [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 10:09 AM To: MapInfo Mailing List Subject:MI MB: Accuracy of Centroidx / ObjectGeography Return Values Good morning, all : Maybe this one has come up before, but I've scanned through the last several thousand MI messages to find some reference to the problem without success. So here goes: I have many tables of petroleum wells which were defined as point objects using the standard Lat/Long NAD 27 for Canada projection without bounds. They were created in the table with 6 decimals of accuracy (ie. x/y of -114.234678 54.943219). When I double-click on a well in a given map, the dialogue displays the same 6 decimals of accuracy. However, when I call ObjectGeography(Obj,1) or ObjectGeography(Obj,2) or CentroidX(Obj) or CentroidY(Obj), I receive only 3 decimals of accuracy on longitudes, and 4 decimals of accuracy on latitudes. Can anyone explain why ObjectGeography / Centroidx don't return the same number of decimals as originally defined ? Is there a workaround to this ? I've poked through the system settings, played around with bounds on the coordsys, and I've yet to come up with anything which will change the behaviour of these function calls. Any assistance will be gratefully received. Thanks. Mike Haden Software Developer Sterne Stackhouse Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MI Frame shape
Hi all - While the frame is stuck being rectangular, you can make the objects within the frame any shape you want. Insert the frame and set the border style to none. Go to the map window and draw the outline of the data you want to show (ie a circle or ellipse) in the cosmetic layer, set 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 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 -Original Message- From: James Marlow [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 10:40 AM To: 'David Eagle'; Mapinfo-L (E-mail) Subject:RE: MI Frame shape Hi Dave You are stuck with the rectangular frame shape. However, the creative use of some layering of objects in the layout may get you what you want. Remember, you _can_ control the "Z Order" of objects in the layout, so it is possible to lay an object over the map in the frame. A little judicious work with some of the graphical objects (circle, rectangle, line, etc.) will probably get you the results you want. Regards, James James L Marlow Director, Geographic Information Systems Channel Marketing Corporation 15032 Beltway Drive Addison, Texas 75001 Telephone 1 (972) 858-9600 extension 331 Facsimile 1 (972) 858-9601 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://cmcus.com -Original Message- From: David Eagle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 10:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI Frame shape GIS'ers, Does anyone know how to change the shape of a 'frame' in a layout...i.e. any other shape than a square or rectangle, preferably a circle?! Thanks, Dave _ David A. Eagle WS Atkins Consultants - East Anglia Wellbrook Court, Girton Road, Cambridge, CB3 0NA. Direct Dial Tel: (01223) 814090, Fax: (01223) 277529 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MI Uncombine polygons
Hi folks - Have wanted a solution for this for a while. The DXF method works but it doesn't handle islands correctly. The workaround I have been using is ArcLink. Export the map to an E00 file and it will force it to arc-node topology. Reimport it from e00 and it will recreate the layer, 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 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 -Original Message- From: PERRY Chris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 5:27 PM To: 'claes hildesson'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: MI Uncombine polygons Claes, Here's how you do it. 1. Open the table in MapInfo. And note the projection of the table (Map Options Projection) 2. Choose from the menu Table Export to export the table as a DXF file. 3. Change the Save File as Type box to AutoCAD DXF (*.dxf) 4. Choose the location to save the DXF file 5. In the DXF Export Information dialog box, Uncheck "Preserve Multi-Polygon Regions as DXF Blocks", Check "Preserve Attribute Data". Click OK 6. Choose from the menu Table Import 7. Change the File as Type box to AutoCAD DXF (*.dxf) 8. Choose the location of the file, click Open 9. Check "Preserve Attribute Data", Uncheck "Preserve Multi-Polygon Regions as DXF Blocks",Choose the projection of the file. You should now have a table containing the multi polygon objects broken down into separate objects. Hope this helps, Chris Perry Systems Development CoOrdinator Parks Victoria Melbourne, Australia Ph: 61 3 9816 6800 Fax: 61 3 9816 9876 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: claes hildesson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 14 March 2000 3:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI Uncombine polygons It is easy to combine polygons, for example a group of islands, to a region in Mapinfo. But how to split them again to individual polygons using a field in the database. I know how to divide them graphically, but I need to do it in one stroke. I.E the opposite of "Combine objects by Column". The only way I found out is to export them ti MIF and edit the MIF/MID files. Not very fun i you have many polygon groups. ** Claes Hildesson Post och fakturaadress: Kulturgeografiska institutionen Handelshogskolan vid Goteborgs Universitet Box 630 SE - 405 30 Goteborg Sweden Besoks- och leveransadress: Vasagatan 1 411 80 Goteborg e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +46 031-773 14 10 *** -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MI sub does not match declare
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 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 -Original Message- From: Tim Warman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 3:10 PM To: Mapinfo-L Subject:MI sub does not match declare [] Listers, I keep getting the MB error "Sub procedure or Function IsTableOpen does not match Declare", from the following bit of code kindly provided by Ahmet Dabanli. include "C:\Program Files\MapInfo\MapBasic\mapbasic.def" Declare Sub WellsOpen Declare Sub IsTableOpen(ByVal MyTable_str as string) Declare Sub PlottingBit Declare Sub OpenWells Declare Sub OpenWater '. 'Define Variables. '. Global H20Levels_str, Wells_str, FilePath_str, Aquifer_str As String Global Year_int, Month_int as Integer Global TableOpen_log as Logical '. 'Check to see if Wells and/or Water Levels are open. '. Call IsTableOpen("Wells") If TableOpen_log =0 Then Call OpenWells() End If Call IsTableOpen("Water_Levels") If TableOpen_log =0 Then Call OpenWater() End If Sub IsTableOpen dim k as integer TableOpen_log = 0 For k =1 to NumTables() If TableInfo (k,1) = myTable_str Then TableOpen_log = 1 End If Next End Sub Am I missing something really obvious here? TIA _ Tim Warman Geologist GIS Specialist Richard C. Slade Associates North Hollywood, CA (818) 506-0418 -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] File: ATT5.txt; charset = Windows-1252 -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]