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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">I’m not new to GIS, but am new to MS.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m having trouble with line symbology.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m trying to display each shapefile feature with different symbology based on a nominal field – similar to ‘unique values’ in Arc products.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In ArcView, I specified a line thickness of 2 and then manually selected the color of each line.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I then exported the map from ArcView 3.2 using gix-export (thanks gix-export developers!). Then I’m trying to preview the map using the Maplab 2.2 ‘preview map’ button.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When I turn on the line layer, the lines do not display at all.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All other layers (polygon, single symbol) are displaying as expected.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Below is an excerpt from the .sym file.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The name of the line layer is Reaches.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=courier size=3><Begin .sym excerpt></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=courier size=3>SYMBOL</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=courier><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>NAME 'Reaches--0--0'</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=courier><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>FILLED true</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=courier><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>TYPE ellipse</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=courier><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>POINTS 1 1 END</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=courier size=3>END #SYMBOL</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=courier><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>NAME 'Reaches--1--0'</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=courier><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>FILLED true</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=courier><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>TYPE ellipse</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=courier><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>POINTS 1 1 END</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=courier size=3>END #SYMBOL</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>And below the portion of the .map file that defines the “Reaches” layer symbology.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I removed the metadata portion that gix-export created.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face=courier><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>LAYER<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face=courier><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>NAME "Reaches.shp"<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face=courier><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>#<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>TILEINDEX ''<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face=courier><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>DATA "reaches.shp"<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face=courier><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>STYLE<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face=courier><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>SYMBOL "Reaches--0--0"<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>I tried comparing all of the layer, class and style parameters/args with those of the “roads” layer in the MapLab tutorial.map file.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can’t find anything that is different, with the exception of the use of the symbol file.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Any help that you can provide to this noob would be appreciated!</FONT></P>
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