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Peter Edwards Sunday 13 Feb 2022 19:45:31
I am experiencing the same problem Colin is reporting. I have plotted a ~25 mile route of the Yorkshire Three Peaks route. I'd like to print it out at 1:25K but using the "print using browser" technique doesn't really help because the complete route is too big to fit on one screen. Instead, I need it to be split across multiple pages for printing. Unfortunately, plotaroute doesn't quite offer the intelligence that I think is needed for this scenario.
If I print out the route across 10 pages in both portrait and landscape, then I can pick and choose the 1:25K maps to print for 9 of those stages / pages. Unfortunately the seventh section is always printed in 1:50K whether landscape or portrait is chosen. As there is a limit of 10 pages max, I cannot see any simple way to get the 7th stage to print out in 1:25K.
1) like Colin, I'd like to be able to just specify the whole OS scale to 1:25K and then have plotaroute be intelligent enough to break it down into the smallest number of A4 pages to print the whole route. For exceptionally large routes (John O'Groats to Lands End!), this might of course require the PDF to be over 10 pages - why is there currently a max. limit of 10 at all?
2) I'd also like plotroute to be intelligent enough to select landscape or portrait as appropriate for each particular section - I cannot see a good reason why this is currently an all-pages-must-be-the-same choice that is left to the user.
Printing is the only sore spot I have left with plotaroute - it provides great access to such a great mapping resource, but I cannot easily turn that into a high res paper backup to our devices for use in the field.
Given that there doesn't appear to be any licensing issues related to printing the OS maps and it would seem to be solely a technical issue, I would love for this area of printing to be improved. :)
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plotaroute admin Saturday 15 Jan 2022 08:17:09
Sorry Colin, there is no way to force which scale of OS map is used when printing - the scale of map used depends depends on how far zoomed out it needs to be to fit the route on the page. However, if you choose "Print using browser" when you come to print the route instead of "Print to PDF", you'll be able to zoom in on the map before printing if you wish until it switches to 1:25K. Most browser print functions now have a PDF option, so you should still be able to create a PDF output if you want one.
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Colin Bennett Friday 14 Jan 2022 18:31:51
I have a circular walking route which fits on one page whether it is 25K or 50K. If I put it on two pages it prints half of the route at 1:50K on each page. I want it to print one page at 1:25K. Can I do that?
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plotaroute admin Saturday 11 Dec 2021 07:50:03
The scale of map used depends depends on how far zoomed out it needs to be to fit the route on the page. So, if you need 1:25K you would need to print the route in shorter sections over more than one page, so that it can be more zoomed in. You can do this using the Multi-Page option when printing.
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Colin Bennett Friday 10 Dec 2021 16:46:03
It seems to default to 1:50K and can't be overridden.
