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Track: Application Development Techniques
Greg Coniglio
GIS Resource Group, Inc.
21 S Grove Street Suite 130
East Aurora, NY 14052
Telephone: 716-655-5541
Fax: 716-655-5540
E-mail: greg@gisrg.com
Generating Hard Copy Symbol Palettes From ArcView
ArcView Version 3.0 provides a wealth of symbols, fonts and color choices. However, the colors you see on the screen are not the same as will be produced by your hard-copy printer or plotter. How many times have you selected a beautiful set of coordinated colors on the screen and produced a terrible looking hard copy plot? To resolve the issue, you could use trial and error to select the appropriate colors, with the associated cost of several reams of paper, packages of ink cartridges, and your time. You could use the hardware color-wheel test plots that taunt you with colors you could produce, but how do you match those colors to the selections in ArcView? To address these issues and eliminate the frustration of what-you-see-isn't-what-you-get, we developed an Avenue application that will create a set of plot files that replicate each of the currently available symbol, color, line, and font palettes. The user can choose the plot page size, the format of the plot file (PostScript, CGM, etc.), and the
name of the palette to plot (current, single, or all available). The output is formatted in columns to match the scrolling, on-screen palettes in ArcView. Submitting the plot files to your hard copy device will produce an exact replica of the ArcView color charts. From the hard-copy pages, you can choose a color and find the matching color choice in ArcView. We have found this most valuable when clients need to choose map color combinations. If they have a color chart in their office, they can make their choices over the phone.
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