help. struggling to readjust border/coastline size on continents.
i have had to rescale my continents several times to fit them into the map frame. each time i do the continent borders scale down or up with the individual continent, leaving the continents with varying border/coastline thickness. i want them all to be the same size.
so i select change properties, then select my continents, but when i try to set the line width to 1 in order to standardize border thickness for all of them, my continents vanish...leaving only the border outline. if someone can help plz do, this has become remarkably frustrating.
ps: an example in case im not explaining properly. i make a tiny green island with blue borders/coastline, then scale it to huge continent size, but the blue borders grew with the island making them very very thick. how do i make them normal size again? setting line width to 1 only makes my continent disappear while thick outline remains for some reason.
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It sounds like you are using a style which has separate coastlines. Look at your sheets in the sheets and effects dialog. If you have a sheet called LAND and a sheet called COASTLINE then to adjust only the coastline thickness pick the COASTLINE sheet and hide all the others. Then you can pick the coastlines and adjust their width and reshow the rest of the sheets.
A general note that might help in the future - if a polygon has any kind of line width greater than zero the fill will vanish and leave just the outline.
THANK YOU!! u saved my life! i thought i was gonna have to retrace everything! <3 <3 <3
You're welcome :)