Overview
In the preceding chapters you have learnt about how to create and edit a map. This chapter contains information about how to share the work result:
- Second Screen Presentation: Show your map using a data projector or on a large screen.
- Exporting: Further process your map, e. g. by adding it to a web page or to a printed report.
- Printing: Output your map as a flyer or as a poster on your printer.
Second Screen Presentation
In a second screen presentation, your audience will see the same screen content as you — with some exceptions: the toolbars and menus are not shown on the second screen, and any comments and notes will only be displayed on the host’s screen, but not on the audience’s screen. Additionally, the caption of any selected object will be displayed as a large title on the audience’s screen, the map description will be added as a subtitle.
First make sure that a second screen — usually a data projector — is connected and activated in Windows Display Settings. It is important to make sure that the main screen contents are not mirrored; instead, the desktop must be extended to the monitor. Open the map to show, then select the command Tools → Second Screen Presentation… or the Second Screen Presentation icon in the toolbar. You may also press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+ P.
Image 8-1: Second Screen Presentation Window
Normally, you do not need to change anything here:
- Screen: By default, the second screen is already selected. If there are more than two screens connected, you may select the desired screen here.
- Full Screen: Hides the title bar and window border.
- Restrict Primary Canvas size to Secondary Canvas size: If the resolution of the second screen is lower than that of the main screen (for example, if you connect a widescreen notebook with 1680x1050 pixels to a 4:3 data projector with 1280x1024 or 1024x768 pixels), this setting ensures that the main screen displays the portion of the map that is also being displayed for the audience. If the resolution is identical or if the resolution of the second screen is even higher, this setting does nothing.
- Zoom object notes to 150%: Enlarges the font size of the Annotate task pane text so that the host can read it more easily.
- Follow object selection, pan and zoom: Synchronizes the second screen display with the main screen. If you choose an object, the selection appears on the second screen, too; panning and zooming are also mimicked without delay. Note that you can move the mouse cursor to the second screen and make different selections there. As soon as you perform an action on the main screen, however, the synchronization is restored.
Exporting
Select File → Export or press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+ S.
Image 8-2: Export Window
Firstly, choose the export format:
- Image: Saves an image of the map which may be used in PowerPoint presentations or on web pages, for example.
- Simple Outline: Saves a simple outline which may be used in a text editor or a word processor.
- Simple Web Page: Saves a simple outline in a format suitable for use as a web page or as the framework for creating a web page.
Depending on the format chosen, various options are available:
Image
- Format: Choose between PNG, GIF, JPEG, TIFF and BMP. For use in presentations and in web pages, PNG is a good choice; for printing, TIFF is recommended. (You must, however, perform a conversion from the RGB to the CMYK color model if you plan on printing professionally; this conversion cannot be done with MYmap itself.) The GIF, JPEG and BMP formats are offered for special purposes only and are generally not recommended for map export.
- Zoom: Choose whether the map is to be exported in its original size or to be enlarged or reduced. As professional printing requires far higher resolutions than screen display, you should increase this value if you plan on printing professionally. If there is a PDF creation tool installed on your computer (such as Adobe Acrobat), you can export vector data via the Print feature; do not use the Export feature then.
- Quality: If you choose the non-recommended JPEG format anyway, you can select the quality level here. Lower values lead to the output of smaller files; image quality is accordingly low. Higher values result in better-looking results, but in most cases you can achieve an even better quality at smaller file sizes — in comparison to a JPEG file with a high quality level — by choosing the PNG format.
- Use antialiasing for text smoothing: Prevents text from being typeset with jagged edges. If you are exporting a TIFF file with a high zoom value for printing professionally, you should deactivate this option, however.
- Use antialiasing for smooth drawing: Prevents branch lines from being drawn with jagged edges. If you are exporting a TIFF file with a high zoom value for printing professionally, you should deactivate this option, however.
Simple Web Page
- Apply font formats from map: Formats outline topics the same way they are formatted in the map.
- Exclude Images: Removes pictures from the outline. This is usually what you want.
- Exclude Connectors: Removes connectors from the outline. This is usually what you want.
- With meta data: Adds a table containing meta data at the top of the document.
- Hide meta data by default: Hides the meta data and adds a link for showing it.
- With class tables: Adds tables containing user properties and their values below the respective outline topics.
- Hide class tables by default: Hides user property tables and adds links for showing them.
- With map thumbnail *: Adds a map preview thumbnail at the top of the document. Choose the width the map is to be scaled to. The preset, 950 pixels, is optimal for many use cases.
- With downloadable iiXML document *: Adds a link to the map document.
- With generator information (eminec MYmap): Adds an HTML meta equivalent containing the name of the generating software.
As long as none of the options marked with * are enabled, MYmap creates a standalone HTML file. Otherwise, it saves accompanying media used with the HTML file.
Simple Outline
- Encoding: Choose between UTF-8, UTF-16 Little Endian, UTF-16 Big Endian, UTF-32, UTF-7, ANSI and ASCII (7 bit). The default setting, UTF-8, is recommended; for exchanging data with users of obsolete programs, ANSI may be a good choice (this encoding is, however, dependent on the ANSI codepages selected in the operating systems of the sender and receiver). The other choices cover mainly special usage scenarios. UTF files are saved with BOM, which may lead to problems with obsolete browsers when used in web pages.
- Indentation: Choose between the indentation of outline levels with tab characters or space characters. If you choose space characters, you can state how many spaces shall be used for each outline level; by default, this is set to two space characters.
- Exclude Image object names: Removes image objects from the outline. This is usually what you want.
- Exclude Connector names: Removes connectors from the outline. This is usually what you want.
Printing
Select File → Print or the Print icon from the toolbar. You may also press Ctrl+ P.
Abbildung 8-3: Fenster Drucken
- Printer: Selects the printer the map is to be output to. Virtual printers (such as Adobe PDF or Fax) are also listed here. Use the Settings button to show the device-specific settings panel.
- Print format:
- Fit to page automatically: Prints your map so that it fits on one page. The more comprehensive your map, the smaller it is going to be printed. If the result is rendered unreadbly, reposition the objects in your map, resort to a larger paper format or use the Poster printing format.
- User defined zoom (and poster printing): Prints an enlargement of your map onto multiple pages. Paste them to get a poster. You set the number of pages to use, and MYmap calculates the largest possible resulting zoom value.
- Margins and orientation: Specifies the margins. You can also select whether the map is to be output in landscape or in portrait mode. Mostly, landscape is the better suited choice.
- Settings pertaining to the format:
- For Fit to page automatically:
- Add document name: Prints the name of the map. MYmap uses the file name without extension and path for this, not the caption of the map center.
- Add »eminec.com« writing: Prints the eminec.com text banner, pointing curious viewers to the tool; we would be most grateful for this piece of advertisement!
- Add author: Prints the name of the author. MYmap uses the information from the Meta Data window, stored under Author, for this.
- Add date/time: Prints the print date and time. This setting does not have any influence on MYmap updating the Printed meta data field.
- Für User defined zoom (and poster printing):
- Number of pages: Sets how many columns and rows of pages are to be printed. The preset value of 3 columns × 2 rows is optimal for smaller meetings.
- Print with bleed: Continues printing outside the set margin, filling the entire printable area. This results in an overlap within which the same part of the map can be seen multiple times. This makes pasting the tiles easier.
- For Fit to page automatically:
- General settings:
- Add border/paste marks: Prints a border around the map. In the User defined zoom (and poster printing) mode, crop and paste marks are output instead.
- Use background color: Prints the background color. If this option is disabled, white background will be used. This setting is suitable for maps with dark foreground colors only.
- Include InfoWidgets: Prints the icons for hyperlinks (compass) or annotations (sheets) at branches containing hyperlinks or annotations.