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Installation .................................................................................................................. 1 1.1 1.2 Installation ........................................................................................................... 1 The Map Makerscreen........................................................................................ 1 The Fast menu ............................................................................................. 3 The Tools column ......................................................................................... 3 Calibrating the screen................................................................................... 3 Usinglayers.................................................................................................. 4 What are file formats?................................................................................... 4 What are bitmaps and vectors? .................................................................... 5 Bitmap layers................................................................................................ 7 Vectorlayers................................................................................................. 7 The live layer ................................................................................................ 8 Loading the first layer ................................................................................... 9 Drop-in / drop-out....................................................................................... 11 Using styles ................................................................................................ 11 “Hitting” a layer ........................................................................................... 15 “Cursor over” information............................................................................ 16 What makes a project?............................................................................... 16 Opening a new map project ........................................................................ 17 Opening a project ....................................................................................... 18

1.2.1 1.2.2 1.2.3 1.2.4 1.2.5 1.2.6 1.2.7 1.2.8 1.2.9 1.2.10 1.2.11 1.2.12 1.2.13 1.2.14 1.3 1.3.1 1.3.2 1.3.3 1.4 1.51.6

Map projects ...................................................................................................... 16

The project manager.......................................................................................... 19 Map furniture ..................................................................................................... 22 Navigation......................................................................................................... 22 Scroll .......................................................................................................... 22 Pan by dragging ......................................................................................... 22 Zoom to box............................................................................................... 23 Zoom to scale ............................................................................................. 23 Go to co-ordinates ...................................................................................... 23 Guide map.................................................................................................. 23Gazetteers.................................................................................................. 24 Tape measure ............................................................................................ 25

1.6.1 1.6.2 1.6.3 1.6.4 1.6.5 1.6.6 1.6.7 1.7 1.7.1

Making measurements ...................................................................................... 25

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