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[Sky Schemer]

For those of you who use Manifold when working with GIS data, but then export the layers to another application for creating your map (Illustrator + MAPublisher, or Canvas X), you might be interested in a script I developed to do much of the legwork. It's posted over on the Manifold forums.

It will non-destructively clip all drawings found in a layout to the layout extent, and then export those clipped layers as shapefiles, along with their projection information. "Non-destructively" here means that the original drawings in your file are not modified. It basically lets you set your printed layout (dimensions, map layers, etc.) in Manifold, and then export only the drawing data that actually fits onto the printed page.

This script grew out of the frustration I encountered when, near the very end of a map project, when all my layers had already been trimmed and prepped for printing, the client asked me to shift the map view "just a couple of blocks to the west". This script makes that sort of thing a lot less work.

[sitesatlas]

This sounds really great -- I can't wait to try it out. Thanks!

[Kalai Selvan]

Wow, great ..
These clients oops, sometimes scare the whole map with a sudden changes..
Helpfully your tool would be a user friendly..may be i will test and give you the feedback.

Thanks
GISGURU

For those of you who use Manifold when working with GIS data, but then export the layers to another application for creating your map (Illustrator + MAPublisher, or Canvas X), you might be interested in a script I developed to do much of the legwork. It's posted over on the Manifold forums.

It will non-destructively clip all drawings found in a layout to the layout extent, and then export those clipped layers as shapefiles, along with their projection information. "Non-destructively" here means that the original drawings in your file are not modified. It basically lets you set your printed layout (dimensions, map layers, etc.) in Manifold, and then export only the drawing data that actually fits onto the printed page.

This script grew out of the frustration I encountered when, near the very end of a map project, when all my layers had already been trimmed and prepped for printing, the client asked me to shift the map view "just a couple of blocks to the west". This script makes that sort of thing a lot less work.

[Jimbo]

Thank-you not only for the script since it's going to be useful especially where I'm learning GIS integration but as well as your post regarding the 64X issue of not being able to run forms with the code behind. Poor Hans encountered the same problem of a blank screen after sending him a sample form in Manifold. Anyways hopefully there's alot more interaction with VB.NET forms in version 9 because it looks pretty cool loading the map project using the Manifold Map Object.