Basecamp and printing

I wonder if someone from Garmin can explain a bit about printing in Basecamp at all?

Is it possible to control scale? I'd like to be able to print a map that's useable with a compass romer.

The detail levels are pretty good and the prints are easy to read but without being able to control scale it's not ideal. Printing grid lines would be pretty handy as well.

Right now they're not quite proper maps really.
  • Former Member
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    We're continuing to improve our printing abilities a few of your suggestions were already on our list, the ones that weren't I'll add in.

    We've come a long way from the MapSource printing that was basically just printing out a screen shot and we hope to get even better with future versions of BaseCamp.
  • It's useful for instructional work that maps are a known scale and work with compass romers so that's great.

    Basecamp seems to be shaping up to be a good tool for planning routes. I'm happier to invest in more Topo products knowing the direction of travel for Basecamp development.
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    Basecamp seems to be shaping up to be a good tool for planning routes. I'm happier to invest in more Topo products knowing the direction of travel for Basecamp development.


    I agree. KMZ display support was particularly useful for me--letting me combine custom and Garmin Topo maps. BaseCamp isn't there yet, but I much like the direction.
  • Former Member
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    We're continuing to improve our printing abilities a few of your suggestions were already on our list, the ones that weren't I'll add in.

    We've come a long way from the MapSource printing that was basically just printing out a screen shot and we hope to get even better with future versions of BaseCamp.


    I realize this thread is about 3 years old, but I too would like to add to the map printing wish list. When printing a map with the UTM grid lines it would be nice to have the grids locked at say a 1000 metre scale independent of the zoom level. There should also be a way to save defaults on the page setup menu so that one doesn't have to keep going back to deselect options that are not wanted in the print out.
    Just my 2 cents worth.
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    There should also be a way to save defaults on the page setup menu so that one doesn't have to keep going back to deselect options that are not wanted in the print out.

    Oh, that's something that I'm waiting for also.