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| GIS Cookbook: Cartographic Design - Preparing your map for presentation (without using a template) |
Keywords: Presentation, map, layout, printing
Category: Cartographic Design
Software: ArcInfo 8
Problem: How do I prepare my data for presentation?
Description: You are satisfied with the data in your Data View window and would like to move the map into a layout form for presentation or printing.
Methodology:
1) To prepare your data for presentation first make sure that you want to display all the data frames and all the turned on data you have in your table of contents.
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I want to display this.
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2) Before proceeding you need to determine how large you want your map presentation to be. So select File ->Page Setup
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Page Setup
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3) Choose the size of your paper, keep in mind that many sizes require special printers, so do not select a size that cannot be handled by your printer. You can also choose here whether you want a portrait or landscape format.
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Page Setup Window
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When you have made your selections click ok
4) To get to a layout, select View -> Layout View
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Changing to the layout view
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5) You layout view will appear with your data frame windows centered in the middle of the layout page.
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Both Data frames are shown
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6) Organize the map windows in the size and location you would like them (Note: If you would only like to display one of them you can move the dataframe you don't want to display out of the way
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Just select it and move it out of the way
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, or you can turn off the themes which you do not want to display.
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Turn the individual themes off
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| Themes off |
7) Now you are ready to add the other Cartographic Elements.
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| Authored by: Benjamin N. Sprague Modified: 9/11/03 |
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Copyright © 2002-2015 by Regents of University of California, Santa Barbara
Cookbook: Ben Sprague, Ethan Sundilson, Carlin Wong, Sam Ying
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