Hi Garry, others,
Just wanted to mention that in the next week or two, we'll be including a
text stroking factory/transformer in the FME betas. It will take a label
string, a rotation, and size (and font name), and produce you the little
pieces of lines that, when viewed, are the label. It actually produces
polygon outlines which are typically filled, so you get a polygonal layer,
though you could get closed lines out by running the output through a
donutholeextractor.
We think this will be of interest to a great many folks, and we'll post
something here when it is available in the beta.
Dale
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 5:31 PM
> To: "garry_christoffersen_[mailto:garry"@odin.co.nz]
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> Subject: RE: [fme] Something a bit different/weird
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> Hi Garry,
> I have an easy solution if you have access to Microstation.
> In Microstation you can drop text to geometry. You don't need to worry
> about setting orientations or scales. The text as lines looks exactly like
> a text string.
> FME converts between shape and dgn.
>
> Martin Olney
> Department of Land Information
> Western Australia
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: garry_christoffersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: November 16, 2004 1:23 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [fme] Something a bit different/weird
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> Hi Group
>
> I have a customer using a web mapping application that doesn't
> handle labelling that well.
>
> What I want to do is from an ESRI line shapefile (road centrelines)
> create a new line shapefile that contains "stroked lines" of the
> road name from an attribute. That is, instead of "labelling" the
> road name from the attribute, the roadname would actually be "a
> whole lot of lines that look like text" eg the upper case letter A
> would be made up of 3 separate lines, the letter R would be made up
> of 2 lines and a curve.
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> I would appreciate any ideas, no matter how weird or wonderful.
>
> Regards Garry
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