Land fill resolution problem

I have a map that is 4200 x 3000 kilometers. I want to zoom in to about a 300 mile area and fill in the symbols, maybe even more. My problem is that the landmass fill becomes massively pixelated. Is there a way to increase the fill resolution so that it doesn't?

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  • MonsenMonsen Administrator 🖼️ 81 images Cartographer
    edited August 2015
    What do you mean by massive? I zoomed in to a 300-sized area on your map, and only noticed a slight pixelation. Have you tried to go to display speed settings and forcing very hight quality?

    Anyway, since fills are raster images and raster images are based on pixels, it is impossible to avoid pixelation if you zoom deep enough. A 4200x3000 map are really not meant to be used at such a detail level as 300. You can change the scale of the fills which will make it look better when zoomed in, but this will usually cause the tiling of the fills to become more visible when zoomed out. This tradeoff is necessary because how raster images works, you can't really have both. If you wish to change the scale of the fill style, you can do this from the fill style dialog. You can also turn off scaling, which makes the fill look good at any zoom level, but it will look the same size no matter how much you zoom.
  • Awesome thanks, just turning off scaling for the bitmap fill land_MS makes it look right when zoomed.
  • Also, using PNG as a graphic output is better than jpg.
  • Yeah I wasn't meaning on output, I meant while actually looking at the FCW file.
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