The limiting factor now is the zoom value I can use in
the Adobe Acrobat Reader and still be able to Copy without
an overflow. However, I can get a good usable fineness of
detail in the house portion of my plan, and passable detail
in my overall plan. My first motivation was being able to
deal with a limitation in Master Landscape, that isoclines
used to produce the right slopes in the right places on my
lot have to be closed curves, meaning a bunch of meaningless
lines that loop around outside my lot (if you try to close
the curves with straight line portions _along_ the property
line, you get a raised rim around the lot). Once I have
my plan as a bitmap, I can easily eliminate the extra lines.
My second motivation, that I'll play with next, was to deal
with the PrintMgr bug that prevents printing to fit the
page with grid lines included; the grid lines can be faked
by drawing CAD lines on the plan, but with dimensioning on
each last one of the CAD lines gets labelled with its
dimension, so that I need to print the grid from a separate
plan printed with dimensioning off, and than combine the
grid with the plan, something easily done once both the
plan and the grid are bitmaps.
(By the way, if drawing lines every foot on a 250-by-100
lot seems a bit mind-boggling, is isn't, really. Draw
ten lines carefully along grid lines, select them, copy,
paste, move into correspondence with the next ten grid
lines, use nudge to perfect that correspondence; now
select all 20 lines, ...; once you're pasting say 40 lines
at a time, the job goes pretty fast.)
