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Extension For Producing High-quality ArcView Layouts

Neil MacGaffey, formerly of the City of Newton GIS, was given an extension that GIS/Trans wrote for him (Neil is now the Assistant Director for MassGIS). It reads layout information from a text file, such as font, text size, view placement parameters, etc. The extension leads the user through a short series of easy-to-use menus, allowing for the creation of well-designed, cartographically-correct ArcView Layouts.

The extension, named GIS/T-ADM Plot, is designed to partially automate the map creation process, allowing the users to easily generate high-quality maps that include various components, including:

Current View
OverView, showing the location of the View in comparison to a number of defined Themes
Titles
Theme Legends
Logos
ScaleBar
Scale Statement
North Arrow; and
Other text, including Disclaimer, and creation Date

In addition, the user has the ability to produce the map at a number of preset scale, as well as generate the map at various paper sizes. The extension also has a special autolabel for multiple fields.

Download the extension (self-extracting gistadm.exe file, 172 kb), which includes:

admplot.hlp - a windows-based help file
admplot.avx - the extension itself
admplot.plt - the default plot file which places info on the right side of the page
botmgis.plt - the plot file which places info on the bottom of the page

Directions: Hold down the shift key and click the above link with the left mouse button to save the file locally; then run the executable by double-clicking it in the Windows Explorer.

View web-based documentation

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