Can I rotate a map?

[Wookey]

+++ Stacho Mudrak [04-03-25 16:12 +0100]:

>> No, BUT ...
>>
>
>>> >fit on a page more efficiently (I've done it before for paper surveys), so
>>> >if it's not currently a feature can we add it to the wishlist?
>
>>
>> It's already there (I should translate at least some parts of TODO from
>> Slovak into English :)))


that would be useful - I have no idea what is currently on the list  :-)

>>> >I read the layout command, and whilst finding various fun things I didn't
>>> >see a way to address this problem
>
>>
>> But it is still possible to do it (using very dirty trick) with your
>> current version -
>> you can set declination for the top-survey surrounding entire cave.
>>
>> -declination [90 deg]
>>
>> will rotate entire output 90 degrees clockwise.


thanx - that'll do for now (I get the north arrow pointing the wrong
way(?) but that doesn't matter in this case)

OK, that works but now I have another query. The page size of the PDF seems
to be determined by the size of the background image, rather than the actual
drawn lines. In the old version there was a lot of space below the cave, now
there is a lot of space to the left of the cave, and this means the centred
legend is hanging in a lot of whitespace. Is there a clip layout control I
can use? The Thbook tells me there is age-setup for atlas mode only, and
size for Map mode, but this only works is page-grid is on (I tried that and
it didn't look nice on this survey - partly due to the huge white-space area)

Oh yes and setting doc-title in layout doesn't change the title of the
survey - it is still just the survey name 'river'. How do I specify that I
want the output survey to be called 'Terikan River Cave'?

>> P.S. What about zooming large images in xtherion. Did the new version of
>> xtherion solved your memory problems?


I haven't had time to try it yet - I just copied from mail to my 'therion'
machine today to try.

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