Paul, I have finally had a chance to spend some time looking at the coordinate conversion issues that you brought up last week. It took me a while to figure...
Hi there, ... I tested Therion for a long time (my first exercises two years ago). As an integrated software package (data processing *and* map drawing) it has...
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... Just move, rotate and resize the scanned sketch to match the line plot. If you were careful drawing to scale (with a protractor, the Therion Protractor...
Roger, I thought I should post a follow-up to my earlier question. I downloaded a trial version of CorelDraw and installed the driver for printing to a...
HI Larry, just got back from a 3 week caving expe in Spain. I will study your answer one of these days when things get organized around here, but it looks as...
Hi Everybody, Several people have mentioned problems with the position of buttons and other objects on the Compass screens. At first, I couldn't find any of...
Hi Larry, - The Viewer: Find Survey/Station Dialog window: the checkbox "Leave Highlights on" does not move when resizing the dialog - The Viewer: Complex...
Paul, Thanks for all the suggestions. I was aware of most of them but they just hadn't hit the top of my list. I was able to do almost everything you wanted....
Hi Larry, as always, great job! No problem, the shift-click already helps a lot. Another question: the help file is not clear about the maximum length of a...
Paul, ... The specified maximum is 12 characters. This used to be hard and fast because all the string variables were set to be exactly this size and so the ...
Dear all, I would like to present version 2 of my survey converter. It is the first time that it is available in English language. You can download it here...
Folks I have an old plt file sent to me many years ago by someone who has subsequently lost the .dat file. Originally I thought 'great, all I need is the .plt...
Howard, Thanks for your question ... Unfortunately, the coordinates are not in a separate section of the PLT file. They are added to the coordinates in the...
another way to do this: - read in the PLT file in Visual Topo (French surveying program that supports PLT files (but not DAT files!) Google for it, it is a...
Howard, It is relatively uncomplicated to geo-reference a shapefile in ArcGIS. You just need to go to the georeferencing toolbar and then establish control...
Hi, http://vtopo.free.fr/vtopo502.exe Once installed, you can go into Preferences, Langue and change the language in English. I just saw that the author...
Paul Thanks, this did exactly what I needed, and allowed me to get the file back into .DAT format The hardest part was understanding the French installer! ...
Paul, Thanks for your email. I spent quite a bit of time looking at your problem and I have some ideas, but I'm not completely sure what is going on. It is ...
HI Larry, I will do some checking for you one of these days. but just some quick remarks: - maybe it would be better to switch over to the registry instead of...
Hi Larry, I’ve did some tests regarding the INI-files. I’ve tried to reproduce the issue I had a couple of months ago when I lost my Compass settings. So I...
Larry or anyone I find than my screen preview does not scale equally for width and height. This is in terms of pixel count, and in terms of the screen...
Hi Dwight, I'm not sure what you mean by "screen preview". Do you mean "Print Preview"? Or just the normal Viewer screen? Or something else? Larry _____ From:...
Hi Larry I mean the normal Viewer screen. Dwight ... From: compass-users@yahoogroups.com [mailto:compass-users@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Larry Fish Sent:...
Hi Dwight, Compass uses the Windows Graphics software to draw all cave plots. I specifically tell Windows to draw the images using a mapping mode that scales...
Larry Your instructions follow about what I did last night to confirm this problem. I created an east-west shot and a north-south shot of equal lengths, so...
Hi Dwight, I looked at the screen captures that you sent me and measured the lengths of the bars in the image. To make sure there was no distortion or scaling ...
Larry I downloaded an updated display driver from ATI for the card I use at home. The driver includes some limited scaling controls. As it happened, with the ...