[Chameleon] Scales and printing

[Tyler Mitchell]

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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