Maptitude^® On-Line Training

Layouts

• Click in the main toolbox and drag a rectangle to display the Add to Layout dialog box:
• You can place any open window, or an empty frame to create a template

When you place a map or figure in a layout, Maptitude makes sure your automatic labels, symbols, and line styles remain the same size relative to the map or figure window. For example, if a label is about 1/20th the height of your map window, it will be about 1/20th the size of the map in the layout. If you want labels to be a certain size (say, 12 point) no matter how big or small your map is in the layout, you can tell Maptitude to use the point sizes you set up in your map before you placed it in the layout. When you use the actual point sizes, the map in the layout may not exactly match the map window.

You can also lock the scale of a map when you place it in a layout. This means that even if you re-size or reshape the map in the layout, Maptitude remembers the scale you set and adjusts the map so that it always displays the geographic data at that scale. The map in the layout may cover a smaller or larger geographic area than the map window.

Maptitude displays every column from your dataview on your layout and uses a font that makes it possible to fit all the columns in the space you set for the dataview. If you have many columns, the text in the dataview can be too small to read. For this reason, it’s a good idea to set up your dataview first so that only the most important fields are included.