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steverod

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User Maps in 3.95
« on: November 23, 2009, 05:22:43 PM »
I have a freshly-registered copy of TF 3.95 (I bought it for the tiled map export, which is verra nize!) and have been playing with it.

I can't get the User Maps to work, or more precisely, to display.
What I did:
1. Scanned in a paper map as a PDF.
2. Exported the map from PDF to JPG
3. Verified that I could view the JPG.
4. Brought up the User Maps Dialog.
5. Added the file as a user map.
6. Nothing visible. I unchecked and then double-clicked on the map (which according to the docs is supposed to enable and display the user map)... the map resizes but I still can't see my user map... just the underlying topo map (or color aerials, or B&W aerials, etc).
7. Adjust the transparency slider from the default up to fully opaque and down to fully transparent... nothing.

What am I doing wrong?

This is on a virtual machine rather than 'raw' hardware; specifically, it's Windows XP running on VMware Fusion 2.0.6, under Mac OS X 10.6.2, so I'm wondering if there's something funny in the graphics system there.
(There are definitely funny things going on in the 3-D imaging; sometimes it shows, sometimes it doesn't.)

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Re: User Maps in 3.95
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2009, 05:31:02 PM »
... and then while reading a completely different thread, I run across http://www.topofusion.com/forum/index.php?topic=3861.0, which basically says that this is a VMware problem as of 2.02.

Time to look into the VMware upgrade, I guess...

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Re: User Maps in 3.95
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2009, 05:41:52 PM »
Ah, thanks for finding that thread.  I had forgotten that there was an issue with user maps reported.

Please let us know whether a newer version of Fusion helps or not.  Otherwise I will be happy to look into it as best I can.

In the start menu under the TopoFusion group there is a link to the diagnostic log.  That'd be the first place to look for clues as to what is going on.  Any directx errors or something indicating the map failed to load would be helpful.

Keep us posted.
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Re: User Maps in 3.95
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2009, 05:35:31 PM »
Just upgraded and I can confirm:

User Maps work as expected in VMware Fusion 3.0.

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Re: User Maps in 3.95
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2009, 01:06:08 PM »
Excellent, thanks for getting back to us on that.
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