[Therion] layouts and esri 2d gis format

[Bruce Mutton]

Hi

I notice that maps made with -format esri seem to be immune to layout
settings.

I get 4 sets of shape files regardless of my layout settings, 

 

Outline2d

Lines2d

Points2d

Areas2d

 

Now I was about to write that because these all lack symbology, only the
outline is of any value, and so to reduce the garbage content (60% of the
file size produced) I tried using

  symbol-hide group all  #hides ALL except passage infill colour

Alas, the directories and files produced are identical.

 

But on closer inspection I see that the lines, points and areas are quite
rich in attributes, so there is some potential for them to be useful.

 

Two questions:

Are there any layout settings intended to be relevant to 2d GIS outputs?

Has anyone put together any arcmap 8.3 (or other free GIS package) utilities
that make use of the line, point and area attributes?

For example to semi automatically display the text or add symbology or hide
entities with particular attributes.  (I'm also not very good with GIS :) ) 

 

Bruce

 

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