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Global Mapper User's Manual
specified sample spacing for the export, the sample spacing will be adjusted to be slightly smaller
rather than the default of adjusting the export bounds up to the next sample spacing boundary.
• Automatically Anti-Alias Raster Layers When Loaded - if checked, this option specifies that raster
imagery/scanned map layers will have bilinear resampling enabled automatically when loaded to
smooth appearance. If not checked then the default nearest neighbor (i.e. no resampling) option will
be used.
• Don't Automatically Interpolate Terrain Layers on Load - if checked, this option specifies that
gridded elevation layers will not have the default bilinear resampling enabled automatically when
loaded to smooth appearance but instead will use the nearest neighbor (i.e. no resampling) option.
• Use Current Screen Bounds by Default when Exporting - if checked, this option specifies that the
default choice on the Export Bounds tab when exporting should be to use the current screen bounds
rather than exporting all loaded data.
• Default Contrast Adjustment to Linear Min/Max Stretch - if checked, this option specified that
layers that come in with automatic contrast adjustment enabled by default (primarily imagery with
more than 8 bits per color channel) will defualt to using the linear min/max strecth contrast
adjustment mode rather than the standard deviation adjustment.
• Never Automatically Contrast Adjust Images on Load - if checked, this option disables the
automatic contrast adjustment of imagery with more than 8 bits per color channel on import.
• Minimize Main Window During Exports - if checked, this option causes the main map window to
automatically be minimized during most export operations.
• Terrain Export: Specify Bounds as Pixel is Area - if checked, this option specifies the the bounding
box that you provide when exporting to new terrain/ gridded elevation formats will be specifed as
"pixel is area" (i.e. via coordinates of the edges of the grid cells) rather than the default of "pixel is
point" (i.e. coordinates refer to center of outer grid cells rather than outer edges of cells).
• BIL Format: Ask if 16-bit Files are Imagery - if checked, this option will cause the user to be
prompted to choose whether 16-bit BIL files that are encountered are elevation or imagery files. If not
checked, any 16-bit BIL files will be assumed to be elevation files.
• DGN: Import Cells as Point Features - if checked, this option causes cell features in DGN v8 and
later files that have an associated point location to just be loaded as a single point feature rather than
the collection of features specified by the cell.
• DGN: Add DGN Color Number to Feature Description - if checked, this option causes the DGN
color number for each feature to be appended to the feature description/level number.
• DXF/DWG: Import INSERT entities as point features - if checked, this option specifies that the
content of INSERT entities (i.e. blocks) in DXF and DWG files should be loaded as a single point
feature at the location of the INSERT.
• DXF/DWG: Create New Types from Layers - if checked, this option will cause new Global
Mapper types to automatically be created for every DXF/DWG layer name encountered for which a
Global Mapper type does not already exist.
• Show Pixel Location in Status Bar - if checked, this option causes the native pixel location of the
topmost raster or gridded elevation file to be displayed in the status bar as you move the cursor around
in addition to the color and/or elevation data.
• Use DOS Character Set for Default Label Fonts - if checked, this option specifies that default
display label fonts should use the OEM character set (code page 437) rather than the ANSI character
set (code page 1252). This option can be helpful if you are having problem with accented characters
not displaying correctly from some data sets (those data sets encoded in code page 437 rather than
1252).
• Use Path to First Loaded File as Default Export Path - if checked, this option specifies that when
exporting a new file, the default export path will be the path of the first loaded file during this session
rather than the path to the last exported file in any session.
• Use CR/LF in World Files (TFW) Instead of LF - if checked, this specifies that lines in generated
world files will be terminated using a carriage return (CR) and linefeed (LF) character as is customary
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