Check out the following sites:
For IEC417:
http://w3.hike.te.chiba-u.ac.jp/iec417/ver2.0/html/index.html
M.A. Lamothe & Associates Inc., has a number of the symbols available in
True Type fonts for sale at $100 us $140 Canadian. Check out their page
at:
http://www.lamothe-approvals.com/pub/ULMark.PDF
Jim Bacher
Paxar-Monarch
[email protected]
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Subject: Re: Converting IEC symbols to fonts
Author: Jody Leber <[email protected]> at Internet_Gateway
List-Post: [email protected]
Date: 4/2/ 0 8:17 AM
At 05:27 PM 4/1/98 -0800, you wrote:
>We frequently want to use some standard IEC symbols in our manuals, and
>we have some of them in some sort of graphic format (I'm not sure which
>one). We also use things like agency marks, our product or company
>logos, electrical symbols, etc, in manuals, product literature, and
>internal documents.
>
>What would it take to convert symbols to characters in a font set, so
>that inserting them in a Word document would be as simple as changing
>the font and hitting the right key?
I may be missing something, but saving the image into clipboard from
paintbrush (or other drawing program) and pasting it into the document is
one simple way.
>
>Does anyone out there know how to turn a .bmp, .gif, .tif, etc into a
>character in a font, and how to create a new font-set? Is this built in
>to Word or Windows, or available as some sort of after-market
>font-creation software package?
>
>Any help that anyone can offer will be most appreciated. Thanks.
>
>Regards,
>
>Jim Eichner
>Statpower Technologies Corporation
>[email protected]
>http://www.statpower.com
>Any opinions expressed are those of my invisible friend, who really
>exists. Honest.
>
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>
Regards,
Jody Leber
[email protected]
http://www.ltgservices.com
LTG Services
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