General Instructions (see below for detailed help)

Printing a Chart:

• Start Chartbook Maker by double clicking on the program icon, or drag and drop a KAP file onto the program icon.
• Under the File menu choose Open.
• Browse to the location of your charts, click on the chart you want to open and click OK.
• At this point Chartbook Maker will display your chart and create a number of tabs.
  The first tab is the index print which will show the whole chart along with the page tiles that make it up.
  The remaining tabs will be the individual pages of your chart book.
• You can now press the Printer Setup button if you are not happy with the current layout.
• Press the Print button to print the index sheet and all subsequent pages that make up the chartbook.
• Go Boating!
  

You may also want to refer to the Printing Tips page for further help.

Note regarding file names:
Chartbook Maker works with all BSB type marine charts.
Somewhat confusingly the charts themselves are stored in files with the file extension *.KAP.
It is the KAP files that Chartbook maker reads.

Chartbook Maker also opens it's own propitiatory charts.
These charts have the file extension *.CHT

Index Sheet Tab

This tab shows the whole chart along with the boundaries of the individual tiled pages that make up the chartbook.
The purpose of it is to act as sort of an index so by referring to it, you can quickly and easily find the page of the chartbook that covers the area you are interested in.

Page Tabs

These tabs are only visible once a chart is opened.
Each tab represents a page of your chart book as it will be printed.
They are automatically generated depending on your printer settings.
If you change your printer settings these tabs will be recreated to reflect the number and size of the printed pages.

View Scale

This option allows you to choose the scale at which the index sheet is displayed.
It is located to the left of the index sheet on the Index Sheet Tab.
This allows you to zoom in to view details of the chart.

Changing the view scale will not change the resolution at which the chart is printed.
Charts are always printed at the resolution that the printer is set at.
You can change the print resolution by clicking on the Printer Setup or Print buttons.
Note: Larger charts are loaded at a reduced resolution to increase speed and minimize the amount of memory required by Chartbook Maker.
This will not affect the resolution when printing.

Print Scale

This option allows you to choose the scale at which the index sheet is printed.
It is located to the left of the index sheet on the Index Sheet Tab.
By default the chart will print at the same scale as the original chart.
Changing the scale will change the number of pages the chart will need to print as well as the amount of overlap between pages.

Zooming out:
To print the chart using fewer pages choose a percentage less than 100%.
This will result in less detail but more area covered per page.

Zooming in:
To print the chart using more pages choose a percentage greater than 100%.
This will result in more detail on each page and more pages in your chart book.

It is often possible to zoom out (thus increasing the detail on each page), without increasing the number pages.
This is possible by reducing the amount of overlap between pages.
To view the amount of overlap between pages see the Page Outlines section immediately following this section.

Page Outlines

Use this to choose the way page outlines are displayed in the index sheet.
It is located to the left of the index sheet on the Index Sheet Tab.
Page outlines are used to delineate the area covered by each page in the chartbook.
On the index chart, you can select each page to highlight it for easier viewing.

There are three choices for viewing pages on the index sheet:

• Show Page Outlines
  This option will show the outline of each page in an easy to read way.
  This is also the option which will be used when printing.
  
  
• Show Page Overlaps
  This option shows the page outlines of each page as they will actually be printed.
  Because the chart usually cannot be printed on an even number of smaller pages without whitespace there will inevitably be some overlap between pages.
  I.e. Some areas of the chart will appear on more than one chart.
  This is a good thing because it means that if you are viewing an area that falls between pages you will not have to keep flipping between pages.
  However, it can be confusing to look at because the page outlines do not form nice boxes.
  
  
• Hide Page Outlines
  This option will hide the page outlines, giving a view of the original chart.

Page Numbers

This option allows you to choose the page number to start printing from.
It is located to the left of the index sheet on the Index Sheet Tab.

The purpose of this option is to allow you to easily combine more than one chartbook without having two or more pages labeled "Page 1".
For example if you were going to combine two charts of 8 pages each you would print the first one starting at page 1 and the second one starting at page 9.
You would then put both Index sheets at the start of the booklet and add the rest sequentially.
This way you can easily flip to the correct page right off of the index sheet.

Color

This option optimizes the color separation when printing to a black and white printer.
It is located to the left of the index sheet on the Index Sheet Tab.

When printing a color image to a black and white printer it can be difficult to differentiate between shades that were distinct in color.
If you use the "grayscale" setting, colors will be mapped to shades of gray in such a way as to make the chart most readable.

Printer Setup

Clicking on this button will bring up a dialogue which will enable you to change your printer options.

When printer settings are changed Chartbook Maker will automatically recompose the individual pages of your chartbook needed to cover the entire chart area.
You can also change your printer settings using the Print button but this is not recommended as you will not have the chance to preview the results before they are printed.

Print

Not surprisingly, this button will bring up a dialogue which will enable you to print all or some of the chartbook pages.
You can also change your printer settings here but this is not recommended as you will not have the chance to preview the results before they are printed.
Instead it is recommended that you use the Printer Setup button.

The print dialog enables you to choose what pages you would like to print.
When printing charts that contain a lot of open ocean or uninteresting inland areas you may choose not to print all pages to reduce the size of your chart book.

Tip: You can right click on the list of pages for more options.