About Book Plotter

All SIS products enable you to print maps formatted on a pre-designed print template.

Print templates can 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 even larger sizes.

Book Plotter enables 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 available in the Book Plotter to create custom print templates that include page numbers and page continuation references.

What else can I do with the Book Plotter?

Automatically insert a Plot Index on each page. You can also create an index page and a map gazetteer to reference your data by page and map reference.
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 (e.g. a district or a county).
Save the book pages as SIS Workspace Definitions (SWDs), to create 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 used as a corporate resource for creating map books of all your GIS mapping in identical format.

Here are some more useful features of Book Plotter:

Automatic creation of pages based on print template size
User-definable irregular page grids
User-definable grid labelling
User-definable 'page overlap'
User-definable overlap shading
Automatic page numbering
Automatic inclusion of page continuation references
Automatic inclusion of a key map on each page
Filtering to exclude pages which contain no data on specified overlays
Creation of a plot index page
Creation of 'Page per Item' on selected overlays
Generation of a map feature gazetteer
Print template creation tools
Output to SWD, PDF, JPEG or printer