Pitney Bowes MapInfo Vertical Mapper - Manual (Page 111)

Chapter 6: Working with Grids
User Guide
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• The Point Style list box displays all the point styles for graph types that have a symbol
component.
When you click the coloured button near the bottom of the dialog box, the Colour dialog box
opens, enabling you to change the plot colour of the chosen grid.
The Colours tab contains settings that control the colours of the different components of the Graph
window.
• The Graph Colours section enables you to control the colour of the Desk Foreground (text
entities), Desk Background (the area outside the graph axes), Shadow Colour (the drop shadow
for the graph area), Graph Foreground (all grid lines and axis lines), and Graph Background (the
area within the graph axes). Colours are modified by choosing an option and clicking the colour
button to the right of these options. This section is unavailable if one of the Monochrome view
styles is chosen.
• The View Style section enables you to choose a Colour plot, a Monochrome plot (black line on
white background), or a Monochrome + Symbols plot.
Exporting a Graph
You have three options when exporting a graph:
• The Text File option saves all the information used in constructing the graph to a comma-
delimited ASCII text file with a .txt extension. The information saved includes the sample
number, the distance from the starting point of the line, the x-and-y coordinate of each sample,
the overland distance between each sample, and the value at each sample location found on all
grids plotted in the graph. The overland distance value is only available when the projection of
the grids being graphed is in a Cartesian coordinate system and has not crossed a null data
region. When this menu item is chosen, you will be prompted for the name of the text file.
• The Bitmap & Tab option saves the Graph window to a 24-bit bitmap image with an associated
.tab file. This allows the graph to be opened in MapInfo Professional and placed inside a Layout
window. When this menu item is chosen, you will be prompted for the name of the text file. Note
that MapInfo Professional versions prior to 5.5 do not support 24-bit images.
• The Windows MetaFile option saves the Graph window as a Windows Meta File (*.wmf).