The map file you have may not always suit your needs when it comes to layout.  

• Perhaps you need only part of a big map, and when you print a portion of the map, the map texts are far outside the page...   Perhaps you want to print the map at a different scale than the map texts indicate... 
• Perhaps there is no legend on the map, or you need the legend in a different place...  
• Perhaps you need to add a sponsor logo, or the event's logo... 
• Perhaps you need to add some cartoon graphics to produce a childrens' course... 

Condes has powerful tools to create a page layout that meets these requirements, so that you can use the map file without changing it:

• You can crop the map and mask the map to reduce the area of the map that you use.
• You can put a frame around the area that you want to print, using the Print Area.

• You can place new texts on the map.
• If some text (or a legend, or an ad, or whatever) on the original map is not placed where you need it on your layout, you can copy a part of the map image from one place on the page and paste it in another place as an overlaid graphics object.

• You can take a part of the map and place in somewhere else on the page, also as an overlaid graphics object.
• You can import a new map and place parts of it on top of your map
  - for example if you need a legend, you can take it from another map, again as an overlaid graphics object.
• You can also import bitmap images (BMP/GIF/JPG/PNG/TIF) and metafile images (EMF/WMF) and place these as part of the layout.  However, Condes does currently not support EPS and PDF files.
• You can place a mask area on top of the graphics object if you want to hide parts of it.

The graphics layout is normally specific to each individual canvas.  However, if a canvas uses the map from another canvas, you can also configure the canvas to use the same graphics layout as that other canvas.  This is done in the Setup Map dialog, which you can open by using the Canvas / Map menu item