This method is useful for applying themes at a later time. Another way is to click the Apply MAP Theme button in the MAP Themes panel. Click the Apply button in any of the Edit Theme dialog boxes to immediately apply theme options to the map document. There are several ways to apply a MAP Theme. This opens the New MAP Theme dialog box, where one of several themes can be chosen: Stylesheet, Chart, or Dot Density. Alternatively, choose New MAP Theme from the MAP Themes panel options menu. To create a new a new MAP Theme, click the Add Map Theme button in the MAP Themes panel. See Appendix 4 for more information.Īlong with the ability to style map art using Adobe Illustrator Graphic Styles and Symbols, MAP Themes allow users to manually specify stroke, fill and scale properties on a per rule basis. To create a style library, simply create your own Adobe Illustrator documents containing your symbols, graphic styles and character styles and save them to the appropriate Helpful Styles & Symbols subfolder. These styles and symbols are stored in Adobe Illustrator documents in the Helpful Styles & Symbols folder. Symbols panel options menu > Open Symbols Library > MAP Symbols.Swatches panel options menu > Open Swatch Library > MAP Swatches.Graphic Styles panel options menu > Open Graphic Style Library > MAP Graphics.To open MAPublisher supplied graphic style, symbol and swatch libraries, navigate to the following panels: Another great source of styles comes from the custom graphic style, symbol and swatch libraries installed by MAPublisher. Graphic Styles panel (Window > Graphic Styles)Ĭharacter Styles panel (Window > Type > Character Styles)Ĭustom symbology can be added to the Adobe Illustrator Graphic Styles, Symbols and Swatches panels. In order to correctly function, MAP Themes require that symbology or styles are established in the corresponding Adobe Illustrator panels: The symbology used by MAP Themes are directly related to the symbols and styles which exist in several Adobe Illustrator panels. They can be edited, applied, duplicated, exported and cleared without affecting the spatial referencing of map features. The Dot Density theme provides a thematic mapping tool that assigns a unit value to Illustrator symbols and randomly distributes symbols throughout associated areas based on attribute values. The Chart theme offers an interface for quickly generating individual bar and pie charts for a chosen attribute of selected features. The Stylesheet dialog box now offers a Batch Generate Rules feature where attributes can be automatically classified using a variety of common classification methods. Adobe Illustrator graphic styles can be assigned to stylesheet rules and stroke fill and opacity can now be assigned on a per rule basis within the Stylesheet dialog box. The Stylesheet theme offers enhancements over the previous version of MAP Stylesheets. Two new types are the Chart theme and Dot Density theme. The former MAP Stylesheets (in MAPublisher 8.3 and older) have been integrated into MAP Themes and is now called Stylesheet theme. MAP Themes are a collection of thematic cartography tools designed to increase productivity by automating how styles and symbols are applied, chart production and data plotting.
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