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From: "mike meuser" <meuser@mapcruzin.com>
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Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 04:25:19 -0700
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Hi - I've had pretty good luck with acrobat.  In maptitude I print to 
acrobat distiller and they come out looking better than any of the 
image export formats.  It takes a little bit of trial and error to 
get legends and all just right as fonts and sizes are not interpreted 
perfectly.  I've been very happy with the results.

Mike

> I have a map of infant death rates by block group. But getting that
> map AND legend into a form that is suitable for publication, much less
> a PowerPoint presentation is always a challenge. Exporting the map (no
> legend) to EMF works fine as long as it is not too complex, but
> exporting the legend as well, appears with screwy looking fonts and
> things not lined up, lines too thick, etc. PNG looks not too bad but
> is not suitable for publication, OK for PP but still blurry. JPEG is
> not worth the bother. 
> 
> In fact I have found that using a screen capture utility (Snagit)
> works OK for PP and is certainly faster especially if you crank up the
> resolution of your monitor. Otherwise if one exports to EMF (enhanced
> metafile) or other vector format then one can tweak in Freehand or
> Illustrator, but that is very time consuming. 
> 
> Seems this problem is a problem with all the GIS software - or I am
> just misinformed... 
> 
> Any of you have a better strategy? 1) for publication 2) PowerPoint 3)
> for an Internet site  for any of the software you use. 
> 
> Richard E. Hoskins
> WA State Dept of Health
> 1102 Quince Street, ms 47812
> Olympia, WA 98504-7812
>  <mailto:47812richard.hoskins@doh.wa.gov> richard.hoskins@doh.wa.gov
> 360/236-4270 fax: 360/236-4245
> 
> 


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