grid-coords border Have had quite a play with "grid-coords border", and they work well on projections, but not so well with plan views. With my grids 100mm apart (100m @ 1:1000) I have to have quite large overlap values (typically 6 - 9 cm) to encompass the outermost grids. This I can live with I guess, but it can mean that my map will not fit on a standard paper roll width. If the 'rotate' value is other than 000 (north up page) then only the values are displayed where the grid outline falls within the page. I wonder if the behaviour could be changed so that the co-ords are plotted along the PAGE outline rather than along the GRID outline. This way they would be plotted regardless of the overlap and rotate values. Also, perhaps rather than plotting co-ordinate pairs on the east-west grids, maybe plotting the eastings on the north-south grids and the northings on the east-west grids would be more intuitive for users of the map. labels And researching this, I noticed that not only do the text labels not survive changes of output scale very well, but changes of output map 'rotate' value really screws them up. Ultimately I'd like to print the components of the cave system I'm working on in at least two orientations. I realise that this presents some conceptual layout problems that the user will always have to deal with, regardless of whether software or paper is the drawing medium, but perhaps Therion could ultimately be made to help out? Perhaps all point labels without 'orientation' could be given a default orientation within the layout definition. (Maybe this exists already?) At the moment I think the default is, orientate text to be read from the 'bottom' of the page (directly linked to the 'rotate' variable I think) What if there was another alternative, say, make the label orientation relative to the map grid? There could be a label-flip [on/off] to make labels flip up the correct way if they happen to be plotted upside down. For now I guess I could use point labels with orientation, or line labels to achieve similar results. Enough! My brain is beginning to hurt. Bruce From: therion-bounces@speleo.sk [mailto:therion-bounces@speleo.sk] On Behalf Of Stacho Mudrak Sent: Thursday, 17 April 2008 8:28 p.m. This is probably because your grid border is behind paper margin. Try to set bigger layout overlap. Regards, S. On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Bruce Mutton <bruce.mutton@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
...but before you go caving Stacho, The following code; grid-coords all
works very nicely, but the next seems to produce no output grid-coords border
Could it be that the border co-ordinates are hidden on my exported maps because of some other setting?
Bruce