Hi All
Has anyone created a set of atlas layouts for
standard paper sizes?
Ie portrait & landscape for A4, A3, A2, A1 etc?
I thought this should be quite straight forward until
I tried to duplicate the default behaviour; ie A4 portrait. The Therion
book explanation is reasonably straight forward and I have checked the old
forum posts which suggest there may have been some problems a year or so
ago…
Varying the parameters makes changes to the output
produced, but not at all what I expect. It is as though there is a bug in
the code whereby the size <width> <height> is fixed at the default
values and not calculated automatically. I am using version 0.5.2 from
therion-update-20080416.exe
My printers printable margins are about 6 to 7mm from
the paper edge, so I can not print out a complete default A4 atlas page to
scale without clipping.
I have not been specifying the size <width> and
<height> because the Therion book says it is calculated automatically if
not given, and also if the nav pane is on, there is not enough information to
allow the user to calculate the height manually. Ie the height of the nav
pane is not available to the user.
Assistance anyone?
Took me some time to get my pages to be labelled from
A1. I have figured it out in part, and if I am correct suggest a change
to the Therion book definition, (at least for atlas) as follows;
origin-label
<x-label> <y-label> . set label for atlas page
which has the upper left corner at
the given origin coordinates. An
‘A’ for A, B, C sequence. A ‘number’ for numeric
sequence. (number sequence will start at ‘number’ minus 1)
(M, A; default: 0 0)
It would be nice for the nav pane to include these as
labels along the edge, or at least have the page numbers inserted within the
squares, otherwise the nav pane is not as useful as it could be once it is
printed on paper… and you are wandering through the cave shuffling
pages…
Transcription of my layout as follows…
#FILENAME: LayoutAtlasPortrait4.thc
#==================================
#Standard Component File created Bruce Mutton 27 July
2008
layout LayoutAtlasPortraitA4
#------------------------------
#GENERAL PDF SETTINGS
#--------------------
#own-pages 0 #number to add
to actual page number btm left in brackets
page-numbers on #on
title-pages off #on
#exclude-pages #this is dependant on
particular output, include elsewhere
#NAV PANE
#--------
nav-factor 30 #default = 30: bigger = smaller
nav pane size
nav-size 2 2
origin-label 2 A #label type <across>
<down> 2 A gives A1, 1 A gives A0, 0 A gives A-1
#origin ?? clashes with co-ord system so not
related to origin-labels?
#PAGE LAYOUT
#-----------
#page-setup 21 29.7 \ paper
width height
# 20
28.7 \ page width height (inside margins)
# 0.5 0.5
cm margins & units
page-setup 21 29.7 \
20 28.7 \
1.5 1.5 cm
#size
overlap 0.5
cm #1 cm duplicated drawing overlap
around drawing pane
endlayout LayoutAtlasPortraitA4
#!END
Regards
Bruce