Can I rotate a map?

[Wookey]

+++ Stacho Mudrak [04-03-25 16:47 +0100]:

>>
>
>>> >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.
>
>>
>> This is not true.


I did wonder... It just seemed to be about that size 'extra'

>>> > 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?
>
>>
>> I don't think so. I've been also asking for such a things, but this is the
>> area of Martin and he is currently in Paris. He should be back on Monday.
>>
>> Anyway - as far as I remember - this was also a bug in 0.2.18 and I'm not
>> sure, whether is was fixed in 0.2.19. It was happening, when you've been
>> exporting atlas and map from one thconfig file. So if this is the case,
>> just comment out the "export atlas", may be it will help.


There is no atlas exported (it's already commented out  :-) .

In fact I have fixed it by changing scale and base-scale till I get
something 'about right'. It works OK when cave is small in comparison to
Legend, but not with big cave and tiny legend. I will investigate more.

>> The background
>> images have for sure nothing to do with PDF size. It is strictly determined
>> by drawn objects. May be - there is something drawn on the map, but you can
>> no see it (degenerated background???). I do not know? If you can send me
>> those sources, I can have a look at it.


I expect you are right - If I can't understand myself I'll send you a copy.

>>> >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'?
>
>>
>> Doc-title was only a temporary think, it was removed in version 0.2.19. The
>> "river" comes either from survey (most probably), or  from map name. All
>> you need to do is to specify title for survey. E.g.
>>
>> survey river -title "Terikan River Cave"


this works, but having
title "Terikan River Cave"
inside this survey didn't - is that right?

>> map river -title "Terikan River Cave"


but this:
 export map -proj plan -title "Terikan River Cave (east)" -layout elevator -o soundriverpln.pdf

gives the error 'unrecognised option -title'

It would be nice to specify the title on the map layout in this case rather than as
part of one component survey.

>> Probably you are the first case. Survey and titles are shown on the "Survey
>> structure" or "Map structure" TAB in the compiler.


OK - I was avoiding loading xtherion up (takes time  :-)

thanx again - I've now got a survey good enough for the compass Pints front
cover  :-)

Wookey
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