Tiling Problem
I've been printing some maps recently on letter paper with a 2% overlap on the tiling settings. However, when I print them out, some symbols do not print out on both sides of a page break, especially when only a fairly small portion of the symbol would appear on one side. Since the maps are made up entirely of symbols (they're tiles like one might buy on heavy weight card stock), this means that parts of the map are missing and it can't be assembled properly. Does anyone know of a way to fix this problem?
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Someone else will probably have another idea as well.
Steve
Anyone else have ideas for how I might fix this?
I'll let you know what levels of overlap "fix" the problem.
After playing with the overlap settings, I can state that for the maps I was testing on, an increase of the overlap to 20% did not eliminate the problem. Thus, increasing the overlap does not appear to be a viable solution.
Something I did notice, however, is that it doesn't appear to be related to the amount of the PNG that appears on a page, or at least not soley on that. On the same maps other PNGs who had similar amounts "bleed" onto the next page printed out just fine. As best I can tell, it appears to be related to PNGs which are rotated when inserted. If the PNG is rotated, then the smaller part of a vertical "bleed" doesn't show up while horizontal "bleeds" work just fine. If I had to guess, I would say that the tiling algorithm that generates the print job works one row at a time and it isn't looking far enough away for drawing elements which might appear on the pages in each row. It's probably defining the boundaries of the row in image terms, and then only looking for items which are within or "close" to that bounded box. In my case, the images being cut-off are 40' long (map dimensions, 8" printed) and thus their centers may be as much as 20' away from the page boundary (map dimensions, 4" printed).
I don't have any other ideas -- this is an advanced problem (and maybe one that needs to go on the development list)
Steve
If I'm doing this right, the FCW file should be attached to this post.
A pdf copy of what my printer produces can be found here.
An archive with the folder containing the PNG symbols can be found here.
Unzip the archive and place it in your #\Symbols\User\ directory.
When you can see both, note how the red rectangle ends flush with the bottom of the large yellow square in the FCW file, but doesn't do that on page 2 of the pdf.
(Well, they're links now, before they were just text of the address.
Also, the print preview image won't demonstrate the problem. You have to actually generate a print out (either digital or physical).
Thanks
We are looking into this.
One solution that comes in mind is exporting whole map as a JPG/BMP/PNG and then cutting the picture with an image editor.
Photofiltre has a plug-in doing that I used some time ago...
photofiltre
(plug-in is HTML split, you can control the number of images but there's no overlapping).
JdR