Helpful Styles & Symbols – Avenza Systems

The Helpful Styles & Symbols folder is found in the following locations:

Windows: C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\Avenza\MAPublisher 11.4\Helpful Styles & Symbols

Mac: /Applications/Avenza/MAPublisher 11.4/Helpful Styles & Symbols

Helpful Styles & Symbols > MAP Graphic Styles

This folder contains eight sets of graphic styles for areas and lines:

File	Description
MAP - Area Effects.ai	A set of area gradients
MAP - Area Patterns.ai	A set of black and patterns for areas
MAP - Area Solid Colors.ai	A set of solid colours for areas
MAP - Line Styles.ai	A set of line styles
DGN - Line Styles.ai	A set of MicroStation DGN line styles 1-7
MIF - Area Styles.ai	A set of MapInfo MIF/MID area styles 1-71
MIF - Line Styles.ai	A set of MapInfo MIF/MID line styles 1-77
S57 - Line and Area Styles.ai	A set of S-57 specific styles for lines and areas

Helpful Styles & Symbols > MAP Swatches

This folder contains several sets of swatches:

File	Description
ColorBrewer Swatches CMYK	Diverging, Qualitative and Sequential swatch sets in CMYK defined by the ColorBrewer system
ColorBrewer Swatches RGB	Diverging, Qualitative and Sequential swatch sets in RGB defined by the ColorBrewer system
MAP - Color Groups and Gradients.ai	A set colour groups and gradient swatches
MAP - Patterns.ai	A set of various swatch patterns

Helpful Styles & Symbols > MAP Symbols

This folder contains symbol sets of categorized symbols:

File	Description
FGDC USGS	A set of symbols from the Federal Geographic Data Committee / US Geological Survey
OSM	A set of symbols from OpenStreetMaps
MAP - Symbols.ai	A set of useful general map symbols
KML - Symbols.ai	A set of Google Earth symbols used with KML points
S57 - Symbols.ai	A set of S-57 specific symbols
Map Icons.ai	A set of general use symbols provided by map-icons.com
MapkeyIcons.ai	A set of modern map symbols provided by MapkeyIcons
NPS.ai	A set of symbols provided by the National Park Service
LabelPro Arrowheads.ai	A set of arrowheads used with MAP LabelPro
Aeronautical Symbols.ai	A set of aeronautical point symbols
Bank Symbols.ai	A set of symbols from major world banks
North Arrows.ai	A set of north arrow symbols
Park Symbols.ai	A set of U.S. National Parks Service symbols
Subway Symbols.ai	A set of symbols from major subway lines
Transit Symbols.ai	A set of symbols from major transit systems
Weather Symbols.ai	A set of weather-related point symbols

Helpful Styles & Symbols > S-57 Symbolization

The S-57 Symbolization folder contains two templates with a series of MAP Theme stylesheets linking S-57 imported features to appropriate nautical symbols and graphic styles inspired from the International Hydrographic Office S-4 publication (previously M-4) (Regulations of the IHO for international (INT) charts and charts specifications of the IHO). Graphic styles and symbol names are mostly based on the S-57 naming conventions. The basic template allows users to quickly apply styles to the imported data. The advanced template is more detailed to help users learn the format and make use of the data.

File	Description
Subway Symbols.ai	Adobe Illustrator template with detailed MAP Themes for use with S-57 data
S57_Basic_Template.ait	Adobe Illustrator template with simplified MAP Themes for use with S-57 data
US5FL12M	Sample ENC file in S-57 format (chart of Tampa Bay, courtesy of NOAA®)

How to use S-57 templates

Open S-57_Basic_Template.ait or S-57_Basic_Template.ait and import S-57 data.
In the MAP Themes panel, double-click a stylesheet theme to see its settings.
For depth sounding labels, use attribute values with the Label Features - Use sounding style option for points labels. To round the depth values according to hydrographic standards, use the expression provided in the Expression Library.

information This representation is non-exhaustive and meant to assist users with limited knowledge of the S-57 format to interpret the data contents more easily. The created map must not be used for navigation unless further processing is supervised by a trained hydrographer.