The upcoming release of MAPublisher 8.4 introduces many new features. Tags: Attributes expressions Labeling MAPublisher Adobe Illustrator Windows Mac optimization New Join Areas feature in MAPublisher 8.4 This way, you end up with just the symbols for the cities you’ve actually labeled. Once the data is imported, you can apply any existing Stylesheets that you had in place to style the cities, or create a new one. Make sure to specify that the projection of the data is the same as the existing MAP View. Import the CSV file back into MAPublisher. It’s not exactly necessary, but it will make things a lot easier. Make sure to check the “Field names on first line” option. This will export a comma-delimited text file (CSV). Next, I’ll remove the city points layer, select all city labels and use the Export Attributes option in the MAP Attributes panel: If I select one of the texts and look at its attributes, I’ll see that the attributes from the city point have been transferred to the text, including the X and Y attributes which hold the position of the original city point. I’m going to be using the Label Features option, but this will work with MAP LabelPro as well. Now that all the preparatory work is done, I’ll start the labeling. Next, I’ll create a layer for the labels and put it into the MAP View as a text layer, indicating that I want to copy the attribute structure of the cities layer. This gives two attributes with the original coordinates of the city points. It’s important that you do this through the Apply Expression option in the Map Attribute panel. I’ll create two columns in the cities layer, X and Y, and assign the expression #MapX and #MapY to them, respectively. In order to more easily remove the unlabeled cities I need to do some preparation. I’ll decide as I go along which city will get labeled, and which will get dropped. I want to label the cities, but not all of them. This trick will have the text inherit the attribute structure of the points including a lat/long and guarantee that there are no orphan points. When you’re labeling point features (let’s say cities) in MAPublisher, using either Label Pro or Label Features, and you’re not placing a label for every single point, you’re left with the task of removing the points you haven’t labeled. This blog post was written by Avenza reseller in The Netherlands, Hans van der Maarel of Red Geographics.
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