Pitney Bowes MapInfo Professional - Manual (Page 333)

Working with the Classic Layout Window
Using the classic Layout window, you can create and customize a page layout that shows off your maps,
browsers, and graphs.
The classic Layout window lets you add complicated geometry to your layouts and lets you work with
the Redistrict window, which the Layout Designer window does not. It also offers layout templates,
which are not yet available with the Layout Designer window.
There will be no new work or updates made to the Layout window in future releases. Instead, future
releases of MapInfo Professional will focus on improving and adding to the Layout Designer window.
For more information, see Working with Layouts .
What is a Layout Window?
MapInfo Professional's classic Layout window is a page layout feature that allows you to combine your
Map, Browser and Graph windows on a page and arrange them for output. You can add any currently
open window to the layout and move and resize it to find the best look to show off your work. Add text
such as titles and labels to pull the entire presentation together.
While you can print individual Map, Browser, and Graph windows directly without the Layout window
(on the File menu, point to Print), you can only print a thematic legend by first adding it to a Layout
window. You can also print the data contained in the Info tool, statistics and message windows from the
Layout Window.
The Layout window is available as soon as you open MapInfo Professional. On the Window menu,
point to New Layout Window to access it. When the Layout window is active, MapInfo Professional
puts a Layout menu on the menu bar, allowing access to a number of layout features.
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Chapter 12: Stylizing Your Map for Presentations and Publishing