OCAD help

[Becks]

I'm using the OCAD9 Demo to plan a course and have an A3 map that I want to chop the bottom off and print on A4 - what's the easiest way to do this? (And yes, I am an OCAD retard but with no time to flick through the help).

[Paul T]

If you just want to print half the existing map, and not move things around to make it look pretty:

File - print
Select your printer from the box in top right
Properties - select the paper size etc etc - OK
Tick the 'landscape' box if needed.

This should ghost an A4 sized window over your map. Drag it to where its needed, then click OK.

Anyway, I didn't realise that you were using OCAD9 in your PhD

[Becks]

As far as my supervisor is concerned, I'm not!

That will work fine for one of the courses but the other session is lots of small loops that I'd like to chop as small as possible - I could export as a JPEG then chop them in some other windows program I'm not a retard with, but is there a way to do this and not lose the scale?

[distracted]

try extras -> partial map, then define for your area. will create a new ocad of that area only

[tokoloshe]

There is no need to create a small map using partial map. In the Print menu tick 'Partial map' and drag the side lines to the position that you want. Don't forget to make sure the scale at the foot of the page is right first.

That will print as much as you need.

[Becks]

Cheers guys - I wanted to put numerous small maps on the same page so stuck to exporting partial segments. I have no idea if the scale was right but nobody complained, so it's all good!

[Red Adder]

If you go down the jpeg route you do need to take care to get the scale correct. The other thing is not to specify too many dpi in the export. 150 sems to be ok - I found if I went to very high deifinition the files became big enough to crash my PC.