Alex Maetzing's Map program

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Hi, Jason. I appear to be the main contact person for this program these days, but I don't really understand your question.

I use the program all the time, as do many team mates. But I haven't used it to print a paper map if that's what you mean. I do know that it only prints on a postscript printer, and remember in the very old days that Alex sent me some on paper. They were A4 sheets, each covering a zone e.g. the whole of Eriador.

But why would you want to print it off? The beauty of the program is that you have it on screen, continuously updated, and with lots of interactive features.

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Subject: [mepbmlist] MAP4
Sender: Jason Bennett <jasonab@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:07:58 +0100

Since we're still waiting for the official mapping program, I've been
playing around with the Maetzing program (MAP4_0).

For anyone else who's used this, how did you get the best maps out of
it? It doesnt't seem to produce a unified picture, only the 2-page
postscript.

    jason

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Laurence G. Tilley wrote:

I use the program all the time, as do many team mates. But I haven't used it to print a paper map if that's what you mean. I do know that it only prints on a postscript printer, and remember in the very old days that Alex sent me some on paper. They were A4 sheets, each covering a zone e.g. the whole of Eriador.

Sorry if I wasn't clear.

What I want the program to give me is a map like the GIF maps on Harly's site: the nice color ones with the boundaries. I know Alex's program can't do that exactly.

I don't want to print it, I just want a file I can upload to my team so they don't need the program if they don't want it. Right now, the only output I can get is a bitmap (to printer, not to file), or a postscript file. I have Ghostview to convert the PS file, but since the PS file starts as two pages, and they have overlapping hexes, it's hard to generate one image from that.

The best I've found is to generate a PDF from the PS with reversed pages (so the west is page 1, not page 2), then view the PDF in Acrobat sideways with both pages on the screen. Not the easiest.

I don't suppose there's any way to get the source code?

      jason

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