On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:08:29 +0100, Timothy Collinson wrote:

>I was trying to create a subsector map for Chant in Core Sector ready for
>TravCon this weekend and no longer seem to be able to get one with colour
>but a white (print friendly) background.  The 'print friendly' option now
>seems to give me a pink background which isn't really any more print
>friendly than the black.  Even the b/w setting gives me a grey background
>which isn't any better.

Try turning off the setting for "Filled borders" while the map display is
set for "print friendly" - that should get rid of the pink and leave you
with a white background and colo(u)r for worlds, borders, et cetera. It
will give you a Classic style map - no 'A-C' notation to indicate Starport
and TL - but it should be non-abusive to your colo(u)r printer.

>Am I missing something?  I feel like this was easy and it no longer is...

It's actually pretty easy, especially if you 'cheat' and use the API. That
can give you what you need, within very broad limits. A print-friendly
"pre-snipped" map of Chant subsector in Core sector can be had in exchange
for feeding your browser the URI

https://travellermap.com/data/core/chant/image?style=print

and then right-click/save-image-as. If you want a higher resolution
(doesn't add any info to the map, just makes it bigger), add &dpr= followed
by an integer; this will render at _dpr_ times the standard rendering
resolution - that is, the subsector map normally renders at 471x684; if you
add &dpr=2 it will render at 942x1368, if &dpr=3 at 1413x2052, and so on.

The API is documented at https://travellermap.com/doc/API and includes
quite a lot of Stuff.

>(While I'm here, is there a 'proper' way of printing a subsector or is it
>really just using the Windows Snipping tool at the biggest I can manage on
>my screen and printing the resulting image?  Again, I feel there must be a
>better way.  I can't get the map on my screen big enough to include UWPs
>and be snipped in one go.)

Use the API as above.

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