Historical Aerial Photography
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Advanced Print Settings

 
Click on the Advanced button.
 
 
The opens additional settings that you can apply to your map.
 
 
Notice, in your previous PDF, the scale was set to 1:1,128
 
Check the Force Scale option.
Enter 1000
This sets the scale to 1:1,000
 
Change the Author = My GIS Company
 
Change Scale bar unit = Feet
 
Important!
 
Do not change the default DPI setting = 96 dots per inch.
 
This is the correct setting for your printer.
 
Anything higher will tie up the print server and take forever to generate your PDF.
 
 
Press Print
 
 
 Your custom Map Scale and Author is shown in the new PDF.
 
 
The graphical scale bar shows Feet instead of Miles.
 
Notice, there is a lot of extra information showing in the Legend.
 
All you really need is the legend for the Parcel boundaries.
 
How do you remove the rest?
 
Open the Legend Widget
 
 
Space permitting, the Map Legend attempts to show everything that appears under the Legend Widget.
 
Turn off the unnecessary layers before you print the PDF.
 
Open the Layer List Widget.
 
Turn off these Layers:
 
 
 
Open the Legend Widget
 
 
This looks good.
 
Open the Print Widget and print a map.
 
 
This is your final Parcel Map with a clean legend.
 
 
 Where is the North Arrow?
 
The map is always printed with the North facing up.
 
The North Arrow is implied.
 
You can select a different Aerial Imagery to see how the structures within your Parcel changed over the years.
 
Open the Layer List Widget.
 
Turn off the 2017 Sep – 2017 Nov Layer
Turn on the 2016 Sep – 2016 Dec Layer
 
 
There were no solar panels installed in year 2016.
 
Change the Map Title = My Parcel 2016
 
 
Print the PDF
 
 
Notice, the building is not quite centered on the map.
 
How can you center the building in the PDF Map?
 
Hold down your <Shift> Key and click on the building.
 
 
This centers the building on the Map.
 
 
Print the Map
 
 
The building now appears perfectly centered in the PDF Map.
 
Remember to center your study area before using the Print Widget!