Pitney Bowes MapInfo Professional - Manual (Page 322)

You can also drag a map from a Map window in to your layout. To do this, select Drag Map Window
from the Main toolbar. Click on the map in your Map window and then drag it in to the Layout
Designer window. If the Map window has a legend, then the legend copies into a frame in the Layout
Designer window as well.
You will see the map frame listed in the Layer Control window with a Map Frame in Layout Designer
icon beside it.
Closing the open Map windows does not affect your layout. Note:
Editing the Contents of a Map Frame
You can activate a map frame in your layout to access the Map window context menu (the right-click
pop-up menu). When you activate a map frame, you have access to all of the editing tools that are
available for the corresponding Map window. Making changes in a map frame affects only that frame.
If the map frame was created by copying a Map window into the layout, the frame and the window are
two separate maps. Modifying the map frame has no effect on the original Map window.
The content of an active map frame in the Layout Designer window differs from that of the stand-alone
Map window. The display of the map, in particular the display of labels, is based on the printer metrics
associated with the Layout Designer window. The labels displayed may differ from those displayed in
a stand-alone Map window, which uses screen metrics.
To edit the display of a map frame:
1. Right-click on the map frame and point to Activate in the pop-up menu. This highlights the border
of the active frame.
2. Select an object on the map frame and then right-click to open a pop-up menu.
3. Make a selection to change the view of the map, edit the selected object, or get more information
about the object.
For a description of the map menu options, search for the options in the Help System. The options are
the same as those on the Objects and Map menus for a Map window.
The contents of the frame is fully embedded in the Layout Designer window and not linked to any other
window, so editing the contents of the frame in the layout does not affect the display in the corresponding
Map window.
Clicking away from the active frame deactivates it.
Editing the Map Display Style
Changing the map display styles for a map in a Layout Designer window is similar to changing display
styles for a map in a Map window. Both types of maps are in the Layer Control list where you can select
map layers to change their display styles.
To edit the map display style in your layout:
1. Right-click on the frame and point to Activate in the pop-up menu. This highlights the border of the
active frame.
2. On the Map menu, point to Layer Control to open the Layer Control window.
You will see the map frame listed in the Layer Control window with a Map Frame in Layout Designer
icon beside it.
3. For the layer that you want to change, either:
• Double-click on the style swatch to change the display style for the layer. A dialog box opens that
is specific to the type of items in the layer and what you clicked on, such as points, lines, or regions.
For details about the options that you can set in the dialog, click the dialog's Help button.
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