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Rotated text appearing as Black box

Posted By Alan Leach 06-06-2023 12:17
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We have an oddity where rotated text appears fine on the screen in the map but prints to pdf as a black box. This only seems to happen where we are delivering Mapinfo via Windows remote desktop rather than a local client. Our text files are just tab files provided by a supplier but we have tested on ...

RE: Smarttext options

Posted By Alan Leach 06-29-2022 08:40
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Perfect Nick, thanks very much for the swift reply, that was one of the options I had tried but I think maybe my linking quotes got out of Sync! Cheers Alan ------------------------------ Alan Leach Suffolk County Council ------------------------------

Smarttext options

Posted By Alan Leach 06-29-2022 06:46
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I am looking to get some repeatable text into the smarttext files, this is working well for continuous text of differing lengths for disclaimers etc but I would like to add some carriage returns or line breaks for address data to add to the template. I have tried a number of usual line break options ...

RE: What3words

Posted By Alan Leach 11-11-2021 05:15
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Still no joy here with this I am afraid, have downloaded the latest version (in case) but still no detail being returned sadly. Never really had this working to any level of consistency or with confidence. Would be good to get this sorted as users are asking for it. Thanks for the help. --------- ...

RE: What3words

Posted By Alan Leach 05-17-2021 10:43
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Just returned to it again to retry and it was just giving coordinates, and then suddenly kicked into life !! At the moment it is working as it was on Friday and very responsive, I can only think if the software is working ok that it must be a connection issue to W3W? ------------------------------ ...

RE: What3words

Posted By Alan Leach 05-17-2021 09:41
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Thanks again for the updates, I have just u[dated again from 2019 and the date of the mbx is 10/09/2020. I have restarted the Mapinfo Pro session and cleared and re-entered the API key language just set to EN, and whilst in general it is still not displaying anything some clicks to seem to populate the ...

RE: What3words

Posted By Alan Leach 05-17-2021 08:58
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Thanks for the update Nick, really odd as Friday it was working well and I even demo'd to our emergency services. Today in 2019 just getting the coordinates, tried updating my 17 version and now getting the 'unhandled exception error,' mentioned in another thread. It certainly has the potential to be ...

RE: What3words

Posted By Alan Leach 05-17-2021 06:36
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Are we any nearer to getting a fully working integrated W3W working, It seems very intermittent, last week it worked for a day in 2019.3 but today it is back to just returning no word coordinates just the X&Y, Was confident last week this had been fixed but back to square one this this! Frustrating as ...

RE: Saving size of Layout Templates

Posted By Alan Leach 10-30-2020 10:47
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Thanks Nick / John, I had turned that setting off for myself, and a number of users, as working from home it was suggested as a way of improving performance in not saving the printer information. I will give the users the option and they can decide what is more useful and convenient for their need. Thanks ...

RE: Saving size of Layout Templates

Posted By Alan Leach 10-29-2020 13:05
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Sorry meant to add that this is Mapinfo pro 17.0.4 Thanks ------------------------------ Alan Leach Suffolk County Council ------------------------------

Saving size of Layout Templates

Posted By Alan Leach 10-29-2020 13:01
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Afternoon, I am trying to generate some templates sized A3, however when sizing the layout in 'Page Set Up' to A3 and the required Portrait or Landscape, and then saving the template, it will always reopen defaulted to A4 Portrait. Having investigated with the default printer settings it seems to default ...

RE: Mapinfo17 - dealy in opening workspaces

Posted By Alan Leach 08-17-2020 08:44
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Thanks for the detail Nick, I have looked at the permissions and made some changes and certainly I have seen an improvement. Still taking longer to open in 17 than the old 32 bit 15 but far more workable to present to prospective new users. I will keep this in mind of any future workspaces cause similar ...

Mapinfo17 - dealy in opening workspaces

Posted By Alan Leach 08-14-2020 05:01
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We have some performance issues with opening workspaces in Mapinfo 17. When opening a workspace the window goes 'Not Responding' stating Untitled.wor for about 7 minutes, it then changes and states the .wor I am trying to open, from there it opens the workspace in the sort of time you would expect it ...

RE: Scale Bar layout

Posted By Alan Leach 01-31-2020 10:32
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Thanks very much Susan and Alicia, now working fine, great explanation and now an option for our layouts Alan ------------------------------ Alan Leach Suffolk County Council ------------------------------

RE: Scale Bar layout

Posted By Alan Leach 01-31-2020 09:05
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Thanks very much for this Susan all very useful, enjoyed the webinar, I have had a play this and still cannot get the cartographic Scale from the view to be displayed, may be obvious but I cannot see it! Ideally we want to just output 'Scale1:5,000' as displayed with the scale bar rather than a value ...

RE: Scale Bar layout

Posted By Alan Leach 01-31-2020 09:04
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Scale Bar layout

Posted By Alan Leach 01-31-2020 06:34
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Is there a way in which you can show the Cartographic Scale on a layout without the actual scalebar being displayed? I wondered if there was a smarttextalias that I could add to the xml to be able to bring this out in isolation of the scalebar. ------------------------------ Alan Leach Suffolk County ...