[Therion] export more than one map?

[Henry Bennett]

Hi Martin and Bruce,

 

I can see "map-image" being a useful way to handle merging PDF documents.
Have been using it for jpgs but never realised that you could merge pdf
surveys.  Will take some thought around defining the coordinate systems
space and getting alignment right but all the tools are there I believe.

 

Still don't totally get the use of multiple layouts in a single export
statement.  Surely if you are using plan and elevation they would be
different "maps".   (or am I just being think?  Wouldn't be the first time).

 

Cheers (and many thanks), Henry

 

From: therion-bounces at speleo.sk [mailto:therion-bounces at speleo.sk] On Behalf
Of Bruce
Sent: 10 May 2016 08:46
To: 'List for Therion users' <therion at speleo.sk>
Subject: Re: [Therion] export more than one map?

 

Hi Henry 

Both the suggestions that Martin has just made are good ones.

Within a single th-config file, all select's are merged (as many as you
want) to produce composite outputs.  You can include any or all of 'model'
and various 'projections' (plan, extended, elev 0 deg, elev 1 deg, elev 2
deg .elev 359 deg) and I generally do (but limit myself to no more than 3
elevation projections).  The selections for one projection are of course
never mixed with other projections.  And so you would then export a map for
each projection (from a single th-config file)

And using Martin's technique you can get therion to insert a map of one
projection into the map of another.

 

Regarding my LayoutMapThisCave and LayoutMapThisCavePlan ,
LayoutMapThisCaveElev090 etc.

This construct allows modular usage of layout statements, ensuring
consistency across all th-config files,  all maps for a cave system and
avoiding need for typing the same layout statements in multiple places.

 

Cave wide parameters are put in LayoutMapThisCave

Projection specific parameters are put in the others (such as rotation,
header content and header position).

 

Bruce

 

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From: therion-bounces at speleo.sk <mailto:therion-bounces at speleo.sk>
[mailto:therion-bounces at speleo.sk] On Behalf Of Henry_Bennett at Dell.com
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Sent: Tuesday, 10 May 2016 7:24 a.m.
To: therion at speleo.sk <mailto:therion at speleo.sk> 
Subject: Re: [Therion] export more than one map?

 

Thanks Bruce, the "Survey" option in the MAP syntax is a really good place
for me to start.  

 

Ultimately it would have been great if I could use a different layout file
for different caves/surveys and then pull them all together in a single PDF.
I thought that is what may be possible with this 

 

export map -projection plan \

     -layout LayoutMapThisCave   \

     -layout LayoutMapThisCavePlan   \

     -output ../Output/MiddleEarthPlan.pdf

http://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/doku.php/outputs

 

However this just appears to work with a single declared MAP.  In which case
I'm struggling to see the usage case for this construct.  What I'm looking
for is a UNION command to join two or more SELECT statements.  (or
confirmation that this can't be done).

 

From: therion-bounces at speleo.sk <mailto:therion-bounces at speleo.sk>
[mailto:therion-bounces at speleo.sk] On Behalf Of Bruce
Sent: 09 May 2016 10:10
To: 'List for Therion users' <therion at speleo.sk <mailto:therion at speleo.sk> >
Subject: Re: [Therion] export more than one map?

 

Henry

Pg 31 of Therion Book.  You can specify a survey when you define a map.  If
you do that then the reported map statistics are forced to match those of
the survey.  This would satisfy your second suggestion.

 

Alternatively you could 'preview below' the 'other caves' and then their
statistics will be automatically suppressed, and it would be clear what the
statistics refer to.

Bruce

 

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Sent: Monday, 9 May 2016 6:51 p.m.
To: therion at speleo.sk <mailto:therion at speleo.sk> 
Subject: [Therion] export more than one map?

 

Trying to export a survey that is primarily one system but also show the
other smaller caves in the area.  Easy to do in a single map but then the
statistics reflect all the surveys.  Is it possible to export to pdf
multiple maps?  

 

Or is there a workaround? Such as telling therion to olnly pick up length
and team from a specific branch?

 

Thanks, Henry Bennett

 

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