[Chameleon] Scales and printing

[Tyler Mitchell]

Exactly the answer I was looking for, thank you.  I had been looking
around in chameleon for a resolution setting, the whole time ignoring
the fact that I had it set to 72 in my map file.  Thanks a lot Bart!

Tyler

Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote:
> Hi Tyler,
> 
> we had the same problem a year back, I think I just changed RESOLUTION
> to something like 96 instead of the default of 72 in the client MAP file.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
> 
> Tyler Mitchell schreef:
>> Hi Jacob,
>> Thanks for the note.  We are trying to find the best way to print the
>> image without the scale changing.  If we print one that was 1:10,000
>> on-screen, when we measure it on paper it is 1:7,500.  Is it just me?
>>
>> Tyler
>>
>> Delfos, Jacob wrote:
>>  
>>> Hi Tyler,
>>>
>>> I had a look at your site, but I'm not sure if I see the problem. The
>>> image I received from the print-production had the exact same size and
>>> extent. The scalebar was off by 1%, by this problem disappeared when I
>>> changed extent, so it must be rounding. The print production does not
>>> change the mapfile resolution anywhere, as far as I can tell.
>>>
>>> Under what circumstances are the scales not equal?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Jacob
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>    
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: chameleon-bounces at lists.maptools.org
>>>> [mailto:chameleon-bounces at lists.maptools.org] On Behalf Of Tyler
>>>> Mitchell
>>>> Sent: 26 September 2006 02:52
>>>> To: chameleon at lists.maptools.org
>>>> Subject: [Chameleon] Scales and printing
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> I'm using chameleon 2.2 on this site:
>>>> http://maps.timberline.ca/okifpa
>>>> and am quite happy with it from a functionality stand point.
>>>> My only problem at present is with scales - I have set my output image
>>>> size from printproduction to be equal to the map image size in the
>>>> application.  But the resulting scales between the onscreen map and
>>>> printproduction output are not equal.
>>>>
>>>> I suspect that either I need to be using slightly different image size
>>>> or there is some mismatched between image resolution.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Tyler
>>>>
>>>> p.s. I couldn't find any discussion about this in the archives, but
>>>> please point me to it if you know of any
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