This is a very interesting work-around! I had not thought of trying it this way.
There is still a problem: If the water extends over many scraps, such as with a river in the cave, then this is not practical.
I get my water areas to join by fiddling with the lines in adjoining scraps. It can get pretty close though it is never perfect. I think the ultimate solution is to have some sort of "join" directive for areas.
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Bill Gee
On Tuesday, August 15, 2017 7:51:14 AM CDT Footleg via Therion wrote:
> More of a problem at scrap joins where both scraps have water area fills
> adjoining is that the hash lines indicating the fill type do not align. I
> work around this by drawing the entire water fill area on just one of the
> scraps so that it overlaps on top of the adjoining scrap (they must be in
> the same 'block' of the map; without a 'break' between them). Turn 'clip
> off' for the area fill so it extends outside the scrap border, overlapping
> the other scrap and appears as one area fill on the PDF. I often use this
> deliberately to hide colour differences at scrap joins where I am colouring
> my scrap backgrounds by altitude. The water area fill is always blue in my
> layout so it hides the contrast between adjoining scrap colours (circled in
> red in attached graphic).
>
> Footleg
> [image: ScrapJoinHiddenByWater.png]
>
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 8:22 PM Martin Sluka via Therion <therion@speleo.sk>
> wrote:
> > There is one possibility to play with invisible walls and define borders
> > of scraps not as straight lines but as puzzle.
> >
> > In such case one scrap may include all water area.
> >
> > The problem is with contact of scraps, but if both scraps are on the same
> > background image you may copy line from one scrap to another with plain
> > text editor. Coordinates are the same.
> >
> > m.s.
> >
> >
> >
> > 14. 8. 2017 v 19:45, Torsten Schnitter via Therion <therion@speleo.sk>:
> >
> >
> > Hi
> > As I was told by a grafic designer problem 1 is just visible on the
> > screen/monitor.
> > When printing to a plotter there are no white lines anymore.
> > I do have the same problem on the screen. But when plotting there are
> > really no white lines anymore.
> > Cheers,
> > Torsten
> >
> > Am 14.08.2017 um 19:04 schrieb Henry Bennett via Therion <
> > therion@speleo.sk>:
> >
> > Problem 2 can be addressed by working with some custom Tex.
> >
> > Take a look at this
> > https://github.com/speleo/SpeleoPhilippines/blob/master/CodeLibrary/_layou
> > ts.tex
> >
> > You’ll then need to inject the code into your thconfig file using the
> > “input” command.
> >
> >
> > https://github.com/speleo/SpeleoPhilippines/blob/master/Region-2/Baggao/th
> > config-BlueWater-System
> >
> > or you could just cut and paste it in.
> >
> > Hope this helps. Should at least get you in the right direction.
> >
> > Problem 1 has been discussed before and I agree, it is a pain.
> >
> > Henry
> >
> >
> > *From:* Therion [mailto:therion-bounces@speleo.sk
> > <therion-bounces@speleo.sk>] *On Behalf Of *Steven Tucker via Therion
> > *Sent:* 14 August 2017 17:29
> > *To:* therion@speleo.sk
> > *Cc:* Steven Tucker <sjtucker135@gmail.com>
> > *Subject:* [Therion] Joining scraps and PDF layouts
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am busy completing a survey of a cave and I am running into two problems
> > with the final PDF
> > First problem.
> > There are water areas that cross over two scraps and the water is coloured
> > blue. In the PDF file, the line where the two scraps join show a thin
> > white
> > line. The kml and loch files don't show any split between the joint
> > scraps.
> >
> >
> > Any idea how to fix this?
> > Second problem.
> >
> > I would like to display the cave name, scalebar etc in one area of the PDF
> > and have my legend in a seperate area of the PDF, but I can't figure out
> > how to do this.
> >
> > Any help will be much appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Steven
> >
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