Anyone made any Atlas page-setup Layouts?
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
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
Thanks for pointing out this problem. There is really a bug in the code and it does not work as described in the therion book. I will try to fix it.
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?
No idea right now about the size of navigation pane - but we will try to add it into thbook, how it is created.
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;
Thanks, we will upgrade it.
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…
OK, an item in the TODO list. I have not been working on it, so I can not say how complicated it is to implement. We will investigate, when I will return from holidays. Thanks for the feedback, S.
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?
No idea right now about the size of navigation pane - but we will try to add it into thbook, how it is created.
It is already described in the chapter Page layout in atlas mode: \navbox -- The box containing the navigator, with dimensions size_width * (2*nav_size_x+1) / nav_factor or size_height * (2*nav_size_y+1) / nav_factor, respectively i.e. you simply need to count the number of pages in navigaton pane, and divide their total height (you know the height of the original page) by the navigator_scale_factor (defined in layout as nav-factor).
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;
Thanks, we will upgrade it.
I think the current definition is correct. The important point is that numbering starts on the page whose lower-left corner lies on the origin (as specified in layout). It does not start on the first page available in order to get consistent results when the cave expands over time. If it behaves differently on your data, send us some minimal sample to help us finding potential bug.
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…
OK, an item in the TODO list. I have not been working on it, so I can not say how complicated it is to implement. We will investigate, when I will return from holidays.
Currently you can get a good overview by exporting map (using the same layout settings as the atlas) and turning page-grid on. Martin
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