Viewing and Printing Graphics

Whenever a coordfile is open in Copan, it is displayed in the main graphic window. You can view — or print out — any portion of this file at almost any scale.

To Pan Around a Graphic Display

If you have a mouse wheel, hold it down and drag it around to pan around.
Alternatively, use the scroll bars or scroll arrows to pan around.

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To Zoom Into and Out of a Graphic Display

If you have a mouse wheel, spin it to zoom in or out, or double-press it to zoom to the full spatial extent of the file.
Alternatively, use the Zoom In, Zoom Out and Zoom to Extents items under the Viewing menu for their associated tasks. (Zoom In requires you to drag a rectangle over your intended target area.)

From the Viewing & Printing menu, choose Zoom In, Zoom Out, or Zoom to Extents.

After choosing Zoom In, drag a rectangle over your intended target area.

To Pan and Zoom Into a Specific Point

Viewing & Printing | Zoom To Point...
Enter the Point number.
Optionally, choose how many times you wish to Zoom in.
OK.

After choosing Zoom To Point, enter a point number, and choose how many times to zoom in.

The display will then be centered on, and zoomed into, the given point.

To View a Specific Subset of Points

See § Point Filters.

To Print a Graphic Display

Assuming you have the desired graphics within view, and assuming your computer has access to a printer...

From the Viewing & Printing menu, choose Options...

Choose Paper Units, and Model-to-Paper Units Conversion Factor.

Choose Viewing & Printing | Options... to open a Viewing and Printing dialog.
Select your preferred Paper Units — millimetres, centimetres, or inches — and enter the appropriate Model-to-Paper Units Conversion Factor. This pair of choices should ensure that graphics are printed true to any specified scale. For example:
- if coordfile units are metres and paper units are centimetres, the conversion factor should be 100 (1m = 100cm)
- if coordfile units are feet and paper units are inches, the conversion factor should be 12 (1ft = 12in)
- if coordfile units are metres and paper units are inches, the conversion factor should be 39.37008 (1m = 39.37008in), the Factory default
Click OK.
Unless your coordfile or paper units change, you'll never need to repeat that part of the process again.

From the Viewing & Printing menu, choose Page Setup or Print.

Choose Paper Size, Orientation, and Margins.

Choose Viewing & Printing | Page Setup... to open a standard Page Setup dialog.
Select various Paper, Orientation, Margins, and Printer options.
Click OK.
Unless your Page Setup choices change, you only need to repeat that part of the process once each program session.

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Choose Viewing & Printing | Print... to open a special Print dialog.
Select which Region of the Source Map to print — just the Current View or the Whole Map — and select the Scale of the Printed Map — Adjust to fit page or Fix at 1: whatever scale you enter.
Click OK.

Notes

The first time you wish to print any graphics after starting Copan each time, you must choose Page Setup... and click OK before you actually choose Print... — even if you don't change anything.
You can obtain the best fit (i.e., the largest map for a given page) if you manually create a match between the shape of the main Copan program window and the orientation of the page in Page Setup — both landscape-shaped or both portrait-shaped.

updated: 23-Apr-2010