Ready to take your Surfer projects from great to unforgettable? Whether you’re an environmental professional, geologist, engineer, or hydrologist, you know that delivering clear, high-impact visuals is key to communicating your findings and winning stakeholder confidence.
In this webinar, Surfer Pro - Drew Dudley - will show you how to create polished, publication-quality outputs that make your data shine. You’ll learn how to elevate your maps and models with essential elements like legends, base maps, Google Maps imagery, and frame templates - all designed to make your final deliverables look professional and cohesive.
In this webinar, you’ll discover how to:
- Add and fine-tune legends using Surfer’s newest tools
- Use unique values for base symbology
- Incorporate contour layers and applied properties into your legends
- Adjust lines, samples, and legend styling for a cleaner look
- Work seamlessly with coordinate systems
- Download and integrate Google Earth and OpenStreetMap base layers
- Design consistent, professional layouts using frame templates
- Work efficiently with linked text in frame templates
- Apply and style base layers for stunning visual results
Chapter Timestamps
0:00 | Introduction
1:10 | Webinar Housekeeping
2:28 | Going over what will be covered
4:18 | Introduce the data
4:57 | Loading the frame template
6:19 | Work seamlessly with coordinate systems
10:56 | Download and integrate Google earth and OpenStreetMap base layers
15:34 | Adding a scale bar
19:22 | Using the Measure tool
20:19 | Q&A Break
22:29 | Add and fine-tune legends
23:43 | Incorporate contour layers into your legend
29:47 | Incorporate base with symbology layers into your legend
34:04 | Design consistent, professional layouts using frame templates
44:51 | Q&A Break
51:05 | Conclusion
1:10 | Webinar Housekeeping
2:28 | Going over what will be covered
4:18 | Introduce the data
4:57 | Loading the frame template
6:19 | Work seamlessly with coordinate systems
10:56 | Download and integrate Google earth and OpenStreetMap base layers
15:34 | Adding a scale bar
19:22 | Using the Measure tool
20:19 | Q&A Break
22:29 | Add and fine-tune legends
23:43 | Incorporate contour layers into your legend
29:47 | Incorporate base with symbology layers into your legend
34:04 | Design consistent, professional layouts using frame templates
44:51 | Q&A Break
51:05 | Conclusion
Q&A Timestamps
20:29 | Does the ESRI World Topography give you contours? ESRI Topo World does provide images of topography with contour layers labeled.
21:10 | Working with unreferenced local coordinates.
45:09 | Is it possible to have dynamic text: i.e. in the template text with scale ratio been actually linked to the scale from Base map?
45:37 | When do you use PDF (Raster) instead of PDF (Vector)?
File Format Export Recommendations from Surfer https://support.goldensoftware.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005530868
Surfer help > Adobe Acrobat .PDF Vector Export Options Dialog https://surferhelp.goldensoftware.com/Pdf-Export.htm
Surfer help > Adobe Acrobat .PDF Raster Export Options Dialog https://surferhelp.goldensoftware.com/PDFI-Export.htm
46:42 | Can you re-position the legend contents to say, put the legend in the bottom so that they arrange beside each other?
Surfer help > Legend Layers Properties https://surferhelp.goldensoftware.com/editmap/Layers_Page.htm
48:03 | Can you split the vertical list into more than 1 column
49:09 | Will you show the data you used to create the pie charts?
50:09 | Can we have two legends?
21:10 | Working with unreferenced local coordinates.
45:09 | Is it possible to have dynamic text: i.e. in the template text with scale ratio been actually linked to the scale from Base map?
45:37 | When do you use PDF (Raster) instead of PDF (Vector)?
File Format Export Recommendations from Surfer https://support.goldensoftware.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005530868
Surfer help > Adobe Acrobat .PDF Vector Export Options Dialog https://surferhelp.goldensoftware.com/Pdf-Export.htm
Surfer help > Adobe Acrobat .PDF Raster Export Options Dialog https://surferhelp.goldensoftware.com/PDFI-Export.htm
46:42 | Can you re-position the legend contents to say, put the legend in the bottom so that they arrange beside each other?
Surfer help > Legend Layers Properties https://surferhelp.goldensoftware.com/editmap/Layers_Page.htm
48:03 | Can you split the vertical list into more than 1 column
49:09 | Will you show the data you used to create the pie charts?
50:09 | Can we have two legends?
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