Anyone made any Atlas page-setup Layouts?

Hi All

Has anyone created a set of atlas layouts for standard paper sizes?

Ie portrait & landscape for A4, A3, A2, A1 etc?

I thought this should be quite straight forward until I tried to duplicate the default behaviour; ie A4 portrait.  The Therion book explanation is reasonably straight forward and I have checked the old forum posts which suggest there may have been some problems a year or so ago…

Varying the parameters makes changes to the output produced, but not at all what I expect.  It is as though there is a bug in the code whereby the size <width> <height> is fixed at the default values and not calculated automatically.  I am using version 0.5.2 from therion-update-20080416.exe

My printers printable margins are about 6 to 7mm from the paper edge, so I can not print out a complete default A4 atlas page to scale without clipping.

I have not been specifying the size <width> and <height> because the Therion book says it is calculated automatically if not given, and also if the nav pane is on, there is not enough information to allow the user to calculate the height manually.  Ie the height of the nav pane is not available to the user.

Assistance anyone?

Took me some time to get my pages to be labelled from A1.  I have figured it out in part, and if I am correct suggest a change to the Therion book definition, (at least for atlas) as follows;

 origin-label <x-label> <y-label> . set label for atlas page which has the upper left corner at the given origin coordinates. An ‘A’ for A, B, C sequence.  A ‘number’ for numeric sequence.  (number sequence will start at ‘number’ minus 1) (M, A; default: 0 0)

It would be nice for the nav pane to include these as labels along the edge, or at least have the page numbers inserted within the squares, otherwise the nav pane is not as useful as it could be once it is printed on paper… and you are wandering through the cave shuffling pages…

Transcription of my layout as follows…

#FILENAME: LayoutAtlasPortrait4.thc

#==================================

#Standard Component File created Bruce Mutton 27 July 2008

layout LayoutAtlasPortraitA4

#------------------------------

  #GENERAL PDF SETTINGS

  #--------------------

  #own-pages 0    #number to add to actual page number btm left in brackets

  page-numbers on #on

  title-pages off #on

  #exclude-pages  #this is dependant on particular output, include elsewhere

  #NAV PANE

  #--------

  nav-factor 30 #default = 30: bigger = smaller nav pane size

  nav-size 2 2

  origin-label 2 A #label type <across> <down>  2 A gives A1, 1 A gives A0, 0 A gives A-1

  #origin ?? clashes with co-ord system so not related to origin-labels?

  #PAGE LAYOUT

  #----------- 

  #page-setup 21 29.7    \ paper width height

  #           20 28.7    \ page width height (inside margins)

  #           0.5 0.5 cm   margins & units

  page-setup 21 29.7    \

             20 28.7    \

              1.5  1.5 cm

  #size           

  overlap 0.5 cm        #1 cm duplicated drawing overlap around drawing pane   

endlayout LayoutAtlasPortraitA4

#!END

Regards

Bruce