Working with Multi-Page Layouts - MapInfo_Pro - 2023

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You can easily create and manage multi-page layouts that can be saved as a PDF document. To add pages to your layout, click the Add New Page to Layout button located on the bottom left corner of the Layout window. To delete a page from your layout, click the Delete Selected Page button. To scroll through pages to view them in the window, use the scroll bar located on the right side of the Layout window, or use the page links located on the lower left corner of the Layout window.

All of the pages in a Layout window have the same page size, orientation and margins. If you change the page setup, then the new setup applies to all of the pages in that Layout window. Layout windows are independent of each other, so one Layout window could be set up with Landscape orientation and another Layout window set up with Portrait orientation. Content that hangs off of a page is clipped when printing or exporting (it does not continue onto a different page).

The Layout window displays only one page at a time. To go to a different page, use the navigation buttons located along the lower left corner of the Layout window status bar, or click on a thumbnail page image on the left edge of the Layout window. You can resize the thumbnails list by dragging the vertical bar that separates the layout page from the thumbnails. Dragging the bar all the way to the left hides the thumbnails list.

Tip: Clicking on a map name in the Explorer window or Layer Control window causes that map's window to come to the front. If the map is in a layout frame, the layout switches to that page to show the selected map.

If you have set up your layout to show grids and or guidelines, then those grids and guidelines stay in place as you navigate from page to page. If you have frames selected on one page and you change pages, the selection will clears. Frame selection on multi-page layouts exist just for a single page.

If you add pages and then save to a workspace, earlier versions of MapInfo Pro cannot open that workspace; only version 15.2 or later can open workspaces containing multi-page layouts.