Hi Martin and Bruce,
I can see “map-image” being a useful way to handle merging PDF documents. Have been using it for jpgs but never realised that you could merge pdf surveys. Will take some thought around defining the coordinate systems space and getting alignment right but all the tools are there I believe.
Still don’t totally get the use of multiple layouts in a single export statement. Surely if you are using plan and elevation they would be different “maps”. (or am I just being think? Wouldn’t be the first time).
Cheers (and many thanks), Henry
From: therion-bounces@speleo.sk [mailto:therion-bounces@speleo.sk] On Behalf Of Bruce
Sent: 10 May 2016 08:46
To: 'List for Therion users' <therion@speleo.sk>
Subject: Re: [Therion] export more than one map?
Hi Henry
Both the suggestions that Martin has just made are good ones.
Within a single th-config file, all select’s are merged (as many as you want) to produce composite outputs. You can include any or all of ‘model’ and various ‘projections’ (plan, extended, elev 0 deg, elev 1 deg, elev 2 deg …elev 359 deg) and I generally do (but limit myself to no more than 3 elevation projections). The selections for one projection are of course never mixed with other projections. And so you would then export a map for each projection (from a single th-config file)
And using Martin’s technique you can get therion to insert a map of one projection into the map of another.
Regarding my LayoutMapThisCave and LayoutMapThisCavePlan , LayoutMapThisCaveElev090 etc…
This construct allows modular usage of layout statements, ensuring consistency across all th-config files, all maps for a cave system and avoiding need for typing the same layout statements in multiple places.
Cave wide parameters are put in LayoutMapThisCave
Projection specific parameters are put in the others (such as rotation, header content and header position).
Bruce
From: therion-bounces@speleo.sk [mailto:therion-bounces@speleo.sk] On Behalf Of Henry_Bennett@Dell.com
Sent: Tuesday, 10 May 2016 7:24 a.m.
To: therion@speleo.sk
Subject: Re: [Therion] export more than one map?
Thanks Bruce, the “Survey” option in the MAP syntax is a really good place for me to start.
Ultimately it would have been great if I could use a different layout file for different caves/surveys and then pull them all together in a single PDF. I thought that is what may be possible with this
export map -projection plan \
-layout LayoutMapThisCave \
-layout LayoutMapThisCavePlan \
-output ../Output/MiddleEarthPlan.pdf
http://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/doku.php/outputs
However this just appears to work with a single declared MAP. In which case I’m struggling to see the usage case for this construct. What I’m looking for is a UNION command to join two or more SELECT statements. (or confirmation that this can’t be done).
From: therion-bounces@speleo.sk [mailto:therion-bounces@speleo.sk] On Behalf Of Bruce
Sent: 09 May 2016 10:10
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Subject: Re: [Therion] export more than one map?
Henry
Pg 31 of Therion Book. You can specify a survey when you define a map. If you do that then the reported map statistics are forced to match those of the survey. This would satisfy your second suggestion.
Alternatively you could ‘preview below’ the ‘other caves’ and then their statistics will be automatically suppressed, and it would be clear what the statistics refer to.
Bruce
From: therion-bounces@speleo.sk [mailto:therion-bounces@speleo.sk] On Behalf Of Henry_Bennett@Dell.com
Sent: Monday, 9 May 2016 6:51 p.m.
To: therion@speleo.sk
Subject: [Therion] export more than one map?
Trying to export a survey that is primarily one system but also show the other smaller caves in the area. Easy to do in a single map but then the statistics reflect all the surveys. Is it possible to export to pdf multiple maps?
Or is there a workaround? Such as telling therion to olnly pick up length and team from a specific branch?
Thanks, Henry Bennett