Just Released
17 Feb. For course planners who create hi-res PDFs from Condes, A Condes Course Planner’s Quick Guide to PDF-XChange Lite (below) will help you with the right settings for PDF-XChange PDF Writer. If you are fortunate enough to have Adobe Acrobat then yu need not read it.
16 Feb. New version of Achieving Overprint in Digital Print Maps is below. Now includes how to get highest quality (vector art) PDFs from Condes and with Overprint.
15 Feb. New version of Course Planner’s Simple Guide is below.
15 Feb. For a limited time, well featured PDF-XChange Lite is available free. It is one of the few that preserves Overprint setting in a Condes hi-res PDF.
3 Dec. Breaking Up seems hard to do. Why you as course planner (and you as controller!) should consider breaking control circles and lines may need to be broken for a fair orienteering event. Plus a quick look at how overprint can help.
30 Nov. For the mapper. Why applying Magnetic Variation to a map is wrong. What?!*?
Producing Digital Print Maps
Course Planner’s Simple Guide to Digital Print, v15Feb2011, PDF 20 pages
Achieving Overprint Effect in Digital Print Maps, PDF 20 pages
A Condes Course Planner’s Quick Guide to PDF-XChange Lite, PDF 8 pages
A Digital Press Operator’s Guide to Process Orienteering Maps, PDF 21 pages
ISO and O maps, Active PDF 1.6MB
In Progress…
Advanced Guide for Course Planner or other Map Producer
Guide to Pretex Waterproof Map Substrate
Guide to Mapping with GPSr
Guide to Using VicMap Shape Files
Tools I find useful in Mapping
Field Work
Cartography
Resources