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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>This was supposed to take me a few weeks to get
around to… but a miss-spent afternoon at work…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I have added a dataset to the wiki that produces a
map demonstrating all of the area symbols and their interactions with each
other and other entities. It produces an A3 approx map at 1:1000.
It is set up to allow users to add their own symbol customisations without too
much effort, and to easily allow switching from the default or various preset
symbol sets.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I see I forgot to add a 10m grid to the map to give a
sense of scale. Perhaps I’ll add that in due course…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ
style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="http://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/doku.php?id=examples#all_areas_all_symbol_sets">http://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/doku.php?id=examples#all_areas_all_symbol_sets</a></span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Some things I learned during the process.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The transparency of areas with filled backgrounds in
pdfs is quite different when viewed with Adobe and Foxit Readers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Adobe renders them opaque, and Foxit renders them
translucent (except for area u:) and except for objects that explicitly have –place
bottom set and except for my custom area water and area sump. This difference
in behaviour persists through to the printed documents as well. At least
that’s how it behaves on two computers I use.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Objects with –place bottom are always
completely obscured by areas with default placement regardless of the viewer.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Objects with –place top render the same as objects
with default placement over areas with default placement in both viewers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The Foxit behaviour is preferable I think, although
you can never get a rock that looks like it is definitively ‘high and dry
above the water’, unless you say, draw two rocks, one directly above the
other.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Therions sketch-warp algorithms perform very badly
where the transformation applies a ‘squash’ in the y-axis and a
stretch in the x-axis. The lower and upper thirds are transformed nicely
and the middle third is scrunched beyond recognition. Adding extra survey
stations to try to distribute the distortion is not particularly effective. I
have samples if anyone is interested, but perhaps too large to distribute on
the forum.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A behaviour of map-comment (concatenation vs
replacement) that was partially implemented on my behalf some time ago remains
partially implemented. </span></font><span lang=EN-NZ><a
href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.therion/1424/match=map+comment">http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.therion/1424/match=map+comment</a>
</span><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> Would it be possible to make it so that repeated
map-comments in the same layout concatenate rather than replace previous
instances as described in that post?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bruce<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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