All Cadcorp SIS products enable you to print maps formatted on a pre-designed print template. Print templates may be as small as A5 (148mm x 210mm), or as large as A0 (820mm x 1188mm), depending on the capabilities of your printer. Some roll-feed plotters are capable of larger sizes still. For many purposes the map would be illegible on small paper sizes, or unmanageable on larger paper sizes.
Book Plotter is designed to enable you to format a large area of mapping onto multiple separate sheets or pages, each one sequentially numbered to form the pages of a book.
Special tools are provided to help you create suitable print templates which include page numbers and page continuation references. A Plot Index can be automatically created and inserted onto each page, an index page can be created, and a map gazetteer can be created to reference your data by page and map reference.
Book Plotter lets you create book pages of any rectangular extent of SIS map data. Additionally, you can create and store user-defined map grids which cover an irregular map extent, such as you would need to encompass a district or county.
Book Plotter allows you to save the book pages as SIS Workspace Definitions (SWDs), to create Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files or to export to JPEG files.
A book of maps can be based on any rectangular area of mapping, or an irregular area defined using the special User-Defined Grid tools. Print templates and user grids can be saved and utilised as a corporate resource for creating map books of all your GIS mapping in identical format.
The key features of Book Plotter are:
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