Hi Eryne,
It should be that FME would automatically convert the text items into
point features in your Shape dataset. No need for transformers. At
least I hope this is what it would do. Let me check...

...yes that's what happens. FME writes IGDS text features to a point
geometry in Shape.

And as a bonus it also puts the text into a field called TEXTSTRING in
the output Shape.

The only issue then is if you want to rename the attribute (just open
the destination settings dialog, click the user attributes tab and
double-click TEXTSTRING to rename it).

Hope this helps. 
Regards,

Mark

Mark Ireland, Product Support Engineer
Safe Software Inc. Surrey, BC, CANADA
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--- In [email protected], "eryneca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> I am attempting to translate dgn files to shapefiles. The problem is 
> that I cannot extract text properly. Ideally, I would like to see it 
> stored as an attribute of the shapefile. Failing that, I would like to 
> create an annotation that I can later join to the shapefile.
> 
> I am using a labelpointreplacer to extract the text. I can store it in 
> a database, but I can't seem to find a way to link that to the 
> shapefile. Any suggestions? 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Eryne Croquet
>






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