Fast Question on Symbol Catalog
roy.denton
Traveler
I am working on making the old Mappa Harnica CC3+ ready. In the old CC2 the symbols are only accessible from the symbol catalog. Is there a way to get them as a stand alone symbol and maintain the scale from the catalog? So far I have been unsuccessful in that the symbol always comes out larger than when I use it directly from the catalog
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Symbols menu at the top of CC3+ -> Symbol manager, highlight all of the symbols you want in the catalog ( I click the top one, scroll down to the bottom of the list, hold down the shift key, and click the bottom symbol in the list), click on save as catalog. Then give it a name, then load it in later maps when you want to use it.
If they are vector symbols they are part of the symbol catalog and that's all there is to it.
I'm not clear on this scaling issue. I don't think my atypical brain is doing a very good job of interpreting what you mean.
When I add one to a map and then copy it and paste it into photoshop it always pastes onto an 800x600 background and the actual image is about 600x600. All measurements are in pixels.
I am wanting to creat fills with the symbols in the catalogs. However, by copying and editing them in photoshop it throws the original scale all off.
Is it possible to edit and/or import PHGs into CC3+ scale it to the desired size save it to a temp catalog holding symbols of like scale and then combine several temp catalogs into a master one without affecting the scaling in the temp catalogs?
I couldn’t find an answer to this in the manual, but it wouldn’t be the first time I overlooked the obvious.