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 will be 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... 
• etc

Condes has useful 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 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 enlarge/shrink a part of the map and put in somewhere else on the page, also as an overlaid graphics object.
• You can import a different map and put 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/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.