Cropping maps, and printing
Is there any way to crop a map to size after creation? I have some starship floorplans drawn up using cosmographer, and because I was uncertain of the precise dimensions when I started drawing ended up with a sheet far too large for my requirements, so I would like to crop it down to size.
When I am printing using a scale factor, is there any way of having the # of tiles automatically selected, rather than having to guess the number of tiles? Is there any way to omit blank areas of the map?
When I am printing using a scale factor, is there any way of having the # of tiles automatically selected, rather than having to guess the number of tiles? Is there any way to omit blank areas of the map?
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1. Resize the map border. Use the the regular scale tool to accomplish this. Note that you may need to unfreeze the MAP BORDER layer first, and then just select everything on this layer for scaling
2. Delete the existing entities on the MAP BORDER layer, then redraw them.
3. Create a new map in the same style with the dimension you need, then simply copy all the entities in the map (except the map border) to the new map. (Or copy the map border from the new to the old)
I don't know of a way to have the # of tiles automatically set, but you can calculate the number instead of guessing. A standard A4 sheet of paper is 210x297 mm (8.2 x 11.7 inches), so a map that is 300 x 500 feet, printed to 5' = 1 inch would take 300/5 = 60 x 500/5 = 100 inches, which equals 8 x 9 sheets. Remember to reduce the starting paper size for printer margins required (CC3 prints as close to the edge as your printer allows) and for overlap, if used.