Pitney Bowes MapInfo Professional - Manual (Page 332)

You can override the default setting, by setting paper size, margins, and page orientation (portrait or
landscape) for a Layout Designer window. To do this, click Page Setup on the Layout Designer
window to open the Page Setup dialog box.
Print OSBM and Subdivide Printing
Off-Screen Bitmap (OSBM) automatically applies when printing a map frame that contains items or
options that require OSBM to preserve their appearance in print. Using OSBM processes each print tile
as a raster. This is an automatic setting that you cannot control when printing from a Layout Designer
window. Using OSBM applies when the Map has enhanced rendering turned on, and one or more visible
layers with:
• Translucent vectors.
• Images (such as raster, grid, WMS, or tile server) with transparency, translucency, or image smoothing.
Printing to a layered PDF does not use the Print OSBM method.
You can turn on subdivide printing as a preference (on the Options menu, point to Preferences, Output
Settings, Printing, and then click Subdivide Printing). When subdivide printing is turned on and Print
OSBM is not being used, then each map in a Layout Designer window divides into smaller tiles while
printing. This reduces the amount memory required to process the print job, especially when the map
frame is large. When subdivide printing is off, then each map frame prints at once.
If your map contains translucent images (usually raster, grid, WMS, or TileServer images) and Enhanced
Rendering is turned off, then it may not print as translucent. To make it print with translucency, on the
Map menu, point to Options. In the Map Options dialog box, check the Enable Enhanced Rendering
check box.
Exporting Your Layout
MapInfo Professional maintains the printer resolution of the layout regardless of the file format you export
to. To accomplish this, MapInfo Professional creates an image at the printer resolution and then converts
that image to the resolution of the export format. This ensures that what you see in the Layout Designer
window is what you see in the image you export to.
To export your layout:
1. On the Layout Designer toolbar, click Save Window As to open the Save Window to File
dialog box.
2. In the File name field, type a name for the export file.
3. From the Save as type list, select BMP, metafile, JPEG, JPEG2000, PNG, TIF, GIF, or PSD.
You cannot export a metafile (EMF/WMF) file from a Layout Designer window. Note:
4. Click Save.
The output size is the same as the printer page size set in the Page Setup dialog box (click Page Setup
on the Layout Designer window).
The export image includes content that is in the margins of the layout (unlike printing, which clips out
items in the margins). However, if the content goes beyond the page limits, then it is not included.
Normally, what you export looks identical to what is in the Layout Designer window. However, some
graphics and text may become blurry when you export a layout. To correct this, on the Options menu
point to Preferences and then click Output Settings. On the Output Preferences dialog box, under
the Exporting tab, select the Clarify Text check box. This corrects the issue, but may cause some
labels on the map to look slightly different in the export from what is in the layout.
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