Preparation to print

Preparation to print panel is intended for decisions of tasks on improvement of presentation of a printed map in view of requirements on designing maps, preparations of schemes, atlases and forming the dismembered images of a map for offset printing.

The panel contains following tasks:

- Filling marks allocation by lines;

- Filling of polygon object by conventional signs;

- Filling of map objects by conventional marks.

Tasks of automatic drawing of conventional symbols are used for creation of conventional symbols in the form of map objects with an opportunity of the subsequent editing (moving, deleting) with the purpose of improvement of map obviousness. As an example of use it can be the task of drawing of conventional symbols SEPARATE TREES lengthways of the road.

- Setup of lines thickness is used for input of thickness of the beginning and the ending of linear objects with variable thickness. As the example of use a task of installation of thickness of a source and a mouth of the river can be.

- Processing of objects crossings is used for deleting (masking) of superfluous contours of objects of one type in places of crossing and a contiguity. As the example of use the task of crossings processing of hydrography objects can be.

- Special sorting of map allows to change the order of displaying (print) of map objects, for example to display polygon object of type BUILDING above linear object RAILWAYS.

- Change of the scheme's scale along object is used for forming the scheme of objects with change of scale along object of the big length with the purpose of reduction of the image's dimensions. Example of use can be a task of preparation of the scheme of bus stops along a route of movement of the bus.

- Create map legend.

- Save map legend.

Tasks of creation and saving of map legend are intended for creation of additional objects of designing in the form of the table of conventional symbols and allocation concerning the map image.

- Setting of standard breadboards of out-of-frame bordering.

 - Forming “out-of-frame” bordering.

Tasks of forming out-of-frame bordering are intended for creation of additional objects of designing in the form of frames of a map sheet, the scheme of allocation of the neighbouring sheets of a map and explanatory titles.

- Map pages creation is used for automatic spacing a map onto sheets of the atlas in the form of separate maps with out-of-frame bordering of each sheet.

- Numbering of pages for atlas.

- Creation of the alphabetic list .

- Atlas pages creation.

- Split to CMYK is used for forming the dismembered images of a map for offset printing with use of CMYK color model.

- Close panel.