Issue: Created a mind map that I use for public speaking. When I print it shrinks the font and lines too much. Making it hard to read at a glance. I really want one page with all my points outlined but without harsh shrinking.

Any Ideas.

Andre

Hello, Andre.
I didn't understand - did you print in a map mode ore in a outline?
Do you work on Windows or Mac?

I can tell you that print would be much-much better in the upcoming major version.

I print in Map Mode. Windows 7.
I had to adjust the font and layout until it fills the page adequately. I had to play with the "map Theme" to find the right one. It would be of an advantage if the page could be locked to the size of the paper that you are printing on. Eg 'A4' WYSIWYG approach. I don’t fancy the extra formatting that happens post printing, shrinking it well inside the page boundary.

Let’s hope they fix this in the new version.

Regards

Andre

(05-22-2010 09:23 PM)pastey Wrote:  Hello, Andre.
I didn't understand - did you print in a map mode ore in a outline?
Do you work on Windows or Mac?

I can tell you that print would be much-much better in the upcoming major version.

(05-24-2010 12:07 PM)Mashemski Wrote:  I print in Map Mode. Windows 7.
I had to adjust the font and layout until it fills the page adequately. I had to play with the "map Theme"

to find the right one. It would be of an advantage if the page could be locked to the size of the paper

that you are printing on. Eg 'A4' WYSIWYG approach. I don’t fancy the extra formatting that happens post

printing, shrinking it well inside the page boundary.

Hello, Andre.

I understand what you want. In next major version we would have very easy and WYSIWYG print setup, but that is not what you need.
We had an idea of guidelines of printing pages seen on a document pages and maybe we would do that.

I would like to advice you some things that can help you make more compact maps. Hope something would help to you.

First, do you use "Send to new page" feature? With help of it you can quickly break your big map to the set of small maps, each detalizing idea on the central map. To use "Send to new page" right click on topic and choose "Send to new page". As you say, you are using mindmap "for public speaking",- by sending every key topic to new page you'll get one central map with the contents of whole speech and map for every key topic. On print you'll get multiple pages too, but they would be in bigger zoom, as there are less topics.

Second, if you really like to see whole map on a single page, I can recommend you to create your own visual map theme. Map theme can be done very easy - set format you like for topic on every level, and then use "Apply to current level". After choosing format for every level you can save whole map format to the file using "Save theme". Next time you'll need compact map - apply the saved theme to the map and you won't need to play with format anymore. To make map more compact I'll recomment you to play with spacings between sibling topics and parent-children - these spacings are changed at Format dialog at windows (right click on topic and choose Format), after changing spacings press Apply to current level.

One more thing - you can change the "width" of topic by dragging left or right topic's side where the resize cursor appears - this "resize" changes maximum width that the topic's text would occupy - thus you can make that width smaller or bigger, to make whole map more compact.

I want to ask you - do you like to place topics by hand or you use automatic map arrange?

Hope I've said something new to you, and something would help.

Regards.

pastey

Hi Pastey,

Appreciate your help and assistance on this matter. I have “played around with the format features, but you have made it much clearer. I think I will give this a go. Thank you.

RE: do you like to place topics by hand or you use automatic map arrange?

ANS: I tend to play with this myself as I attach clipart to topics as memory jotters and if I leave it to the program they overlap the text.

Will the new up-date actually show the page like in a “print layout view”?

Regards

Andre

(05-25-2010 08:13 AM)Mashemski Wrote:  Appreciate your help and assistance on this matter. I have “played around with the format features, but you have made it much clearer. I think I will give this a go. Thank you.

I was glad to help.

(05-25-2010 08:13 AM)Mashemski Wrote:  RE: do you like to place topics by hand or you use automatic map arrange?
ANS: I tend to play with this myself as I attach clipart to topics as memory jotters and if I leave it to the program they overlap the text.

Do you embedd cliparts into topics or you attach them?
If you don't know - you can put clipart inside of topic by drag-n-droping clipart on topic (while you drag over topic yellow net will appear - cells in that net mean where clipart will be if you'll drop clipart; you can change clipart position at Format dialog). You can also embed clipart in a such way - select topic and just click on a clipart in the Clipart dialog.
As I understand - you use cliparts attaching - you fisrt drop clipart to the map and then drop it to topic (while drag over topic it's blue-highlited). Attach clipart goes with topic everywhere the topic goes keeping the relative distance between clipart and topic.

(05-25-2010 08:13 AM)Mashemski Wrote:  Will the new up-date actually show the page like in a “print layout view”?

As I understand what you mean by this question, you want to be able to adjust map to fit printing page before print right in a print layout view. That is not done now, but think about it. Right now print layout view is made more easy and WYSIWYG.