Pitney Bowes MapInfo Professional - Manual (Page 335)

not the zoom of individual windows in frames. (If you want to change the zoom level on a frame containing
a Map window, change the zoom for the Map window itself.)
There are four ways to change the zoom level of the Layout window:
• Use the Zoom-in and Zoom-out tools. These tools work exactly as they do in the Map window. You
can click the Layout window with the tools or draw a marquee box around the areas of the Layout
window.
• On the Layout menu, click Change Zoom to set the zoom. You can set the zoom anywhere between
6.3% and 800%.
• Use the number keys (1-8) on your keyboard to set the zoom level. As the numbers increase, the
zoom increases geometrically. For example, press 1 to get a zoom of 6.3%, press 2 to get a zoom of
12.5%, and press 3 to get a zoom of 25%. (Remember to use the number keypad, and make sure
Num Lock is on.)
• Use the View commands in the Layout menu: View Actual Size, View Entire Layout, Previous
View.
Ordering Overlapping Objects
You may add enough windows to the Layout window to cause objects to overlap one another. In the
Layout window all objects are ordered from front to back. Think of them as being stacked in the layout.
When you draw a new object, it is automatically the front most object, even if it is not overlapping any
other objects in the layout. To display your objects properly, you may need to bring an object forward in
front of other objects.
You can use the Bring to Front and Send to Back commands to change the order of objects. Click an
object with the Select tool. Choose the Bring to Front option to move the object into the foreground.
Choose the Send to Back object to move the object into the background.
When you select an object using the Ctrl key along with the Select tool, MapInfo Professional selects
the object one layer down. Selecting again chooses the next layer.
Before You Create a Layout
The first step in generating quality output is creating good Map windows. MapInfo Professional is set up
to do a great deal of on-screen data entry, object editing, geocoding, and geographic analysis. There
are many windows available to work with that can be easily arranged on the screen. When you prepare
any MapInfo Professional window for output using a classic Layout window, you must change the way
you think of using MapInfo Professional.
For example, in a MapInfo Professional session, if you want two views of a map, you may simply use
the Grabber tool and shift to a different location and then return via Map menu (click Previous View).
To get two views of the same map for a layout, you must have two separate Map windows. There are
many techniques that can be used to prepare the windows to make output easier.
Creating Multiple Views of the Same Map
One very popular way to display maps is to have a detailed map with an inset of an overview map
representing the general area. For example, government planners have a detailed flood plain map
thematically shaded for an area around a major city. They want to include an inset map showing the
location of that city in relation to the entire region. We can simulate this exercise with the WORLD.TAB
table included with MapInfo Professional.
Some of the files described in this example may refer to MapInfo Professional Tutorial data,
which is available on the MapInfo web site,
www.mapinfo.com .
Note:
To create multiple views of the same map:
1. Open the WORLD.tab and WORLDCAP.TAB tables from the MapInfo/Data/World directory. The tables
display in a Map window.
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