{"id":186,"date":"2007-11-13T20:33:38","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T03:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffhobbs.net\/2007\/11\/13\/inserting-an-object-into-the-layout-window\/"},"modified":"2007-11-13T20:33:38","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T03:33:38","slug":"inserting-an-object-into-the-layout-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhobbs.com\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Inserting an Object into the Layout Window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve run into this problem many, many times. In fact, I&#8217;ve filed a worksheet in the past and gotten mixed results as to the answer. Basically, I want to use the Insert &gt; Object command in the Layout Window to insert my oh so fancy logo into my map. In the past I&#8217;ve been told that it&#8217;s an OLE association issue (or something that sounds like that) on my computer. However, to be honest, I&#8217;ve NEVER gotten it to work..and I&#8217;ve replaced my computer MANY times since that answer. So, how have I gotten around the issue for the last five years? <\/p>\n<p>1) Launch Internet Explorer<\/p>\n<p>2) File &gt; Open and navigate to your logo (in my case a .gif). However it should work just fine for any &quot;common&quot; file format. Note, you can also drag the logo on top of a Internet Explorer window if you&#8217;d prefer.<\/p>\n<p>3) Right-click on the image and select &quot;Copy&quot;<\/p>\n<p>4) Open the Layout Window in GeoMedia<\/p>\n<p>5) Select Edit &gt; Paste<\/p>\n<p>Voila! &#8211; your logo appears in the layout window. You then just need to shrink, move, etc. I&#8217;ve also noticed that by <strong>default<\/strong>, the pasted image has a box or neat line around it. This only makes sense as I&#8217;m sure most folks want an ugly box around their logo. Anyhow, just right click on the logo and select &quot;Properties&quot;. Then go to the General tab and uncheck the &quot;Display boundary&quot; box. <br \/>\n\t\t\t      <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/jeffhobbs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/logo.gif\" width=\"252\" height=\"225\" \/>\t\t\t\t  <\/p>\n<p>After that, you&#8217;re all set. <\/p>\n<p>On a side note, if you&#8217;re going to be using the same template time and time again, you might be better off saving your layout window sheet off to a GeoMedia Layout Template. This can be easily done by using the Sheets &gt; Export Layout command. Just choose the GeoMedia Layout Template (*.glt) format before you export the sheet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/jeffhobbs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/exoirt.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>That way you can use the Sheets &gt; Import Layout command to re-use the template whenever you&#8217;d like.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">One more quick note. If you&#8217;re going to be using a template, Intergraph delivers quite a few nice scale bars that can be imported into a layout sheet and will be exported as part of a .glt. They are NOT dynamic so they assume you know your scale ahead of time (and are plotting the scale shown on the scale bar). They can be found in &quot;C:\\Program Files\\GeoMedia Professional\\Symbols\\Layout\\Scale Bars&quot; folder. You will also see the north arrows in the folder next to the scale bars folder. All of the .sym files can be placed in the layout window using the &quot;Set Active Symbol&quot; command in the <strong>Draw<\/strong> toolbar.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/jeffhobbs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/draw.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"13\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/jeffhobbs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/set.gif\" width=\"124\" height=\"198\" \/> <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Then use the &quot;Symbol&quot; tool in the same <strong>Draw<\/strong> toolbar to place the active symbol (the .sym file you just selected using the &quot;Set Active Symbol&quot; command.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/jeffhobbs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/active.gif\" width=\"66\" height=\"66\" \/> \n\t\t\t          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve run into this problem many, many times. 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