Create special purpose maps, which you either can print or save as PDF, using the Drawing Control on the Advanced Toolbar and the Print tool on the Main Toolbar.
Using tools from Drawing Control
, you can annotate the current map in the main window.
Then use the Print
tool on the Main
Toolbar to print the map in the main window, including all the annotations
you added, as well as a legend and title text. You can also print them
as PDF files or email the map to others.
Try it out!
Change the settings in My Profile
Click the Show
Advanced Toolbar tool
and then the My
Profile
tool.
Select Print directly from Print Preview and then Save My Profile.
Prepare the map view you want to print
Activate the layers for the map on the Layers Tab.
Use Zoom and Pan until the area you want to print is visible inside the main window.
Annotate the map with circles, lines and comments
Use the Drawing
Control
on the Advanced
Toolbar to annotate the map.
Note: See Drawing
Control
in the Reference section for more details
about drawing.

Choose
Color
and Width
of the annotations first.
Try out the different
drawing tools, like Draw Point
, Draw Line
,
and Draw Box
.
Click the Draw
Text
tool and then the location you want text on the
map. Enter the text in the text prompt that appears at the top of the
screen.
Create a private Bookmark from the Advanced Toolbar to save the annotated map.
Practice with the annotation tools until you feel comfortable with them.
Set up the printed map
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Click the Print button.
Check if you want to include a Legend.
Use the Legend Manager to refine the legend.
Enter Map Titles.
Select Paper Size and Portrait or Landscape Orientation.
Select the Scale if appropriate.
Preview and Print
Select Preview to preview the map in a pop-up window.
Print the map as usual from the Print Manager, which appears if you set My Profile as recommended above.
Print to PDF
Select Print to PDF Portable Document Format : a file format developed by Adobe to display documents independent of the original application used to create it. PDF can be generated using XML to make an electronic version of your map that you can email or save on your computer.
Select Open, if you just want to preview it, or Save in the dialogue box.
Send the map in an email
To send the map directly in an email as a PDF Portable Document Format : a file format developed by Adobe to display documents independent of the original application used to create it. PDF can be generated using XML, click Email, fill out the form and click Send Email.
