RE: [geonet]: Fonts

[Natalie Green]

Aaron,   Here is what happens in OASIS montaj (all versions).   1. We no longer use BFN fonts, only GFN fonts.  The purpose of BFN (binary) fonts in the DOS days was to improve performance since the fonts had to be loaded every time a PLT file was displayed.   2. In OM, the GFN font is read into the map as soon as the map uses the font.  The MAP then keeps a copy of the GFN as an internal map object that is available for any text in the map that uses that GFN.  This is why we no longer have a performance penalty using GFN fonts.  It also allows maps (and e-maps) to be sent around and they will always look right since the fonts are part of the map.   This means you will only see changes you make to a GFN when you create a new map, and that map uses a the new GFN font.   Natalie Green Technical Support Representative Geosoft Inc. Software and services for effective earth science decision-making. Free Oasis montaj interface now available at www.geosoft.com Geosoft Inc. 8th Floor 85 Richmond St. W. Toronto, Ontario Canada M5H 2C9 Tel. (416) 369-0111 Fax. (416) 369-9599 E-mail. [EMAIL PROTECTED]     ----Original Message----- From: Aaron Balasch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 11:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [geonet]: Fonts I've been experimenting with customising fonts and can't quite figure out what's going on, so I thought someone out there might know the answers. The first thing I tried was to copy the DEFAULT.GFN file to TEST.GFN. I then went into TEST.GFN and deleted everything but the first 12 characters. I then thought I could convert TEST.GFN to TEST.BFN through GFN2BFN.EXE. To my surprise, Montaj 4.3 doesn't have it(or I accidentally erased it) so I took a copy from my old DOS Oasis and ran GFN2BFN TEST TEST. I went back into Montaj and placed a symbol on a map. In the attribute popup table, I scrolled down all the geosoft fonts and TEST was there and showed the first 12 characters, and the rest were those rectangles to indicate that there's no defined character. Everything mad sense up until this point. I then went back to the DOS shell and modified TEST.GFN to contain the first 20 characters of DEFAULT.GFN, ran GFN2BFN, went back, edited the plot and brought up the attribute popup table. I scrolled through the geosoft fonts and TEST was there but still only showed the first 12 characters rather than the first 20 characters that I was expecting. I then went to the DOS shell and deleted TEST.GFN and TEST.BFN. I went back to Montaj, edited the map, and brought up the attribute popup table. I scrolled through the geosoft fonts and to my surprise TEST was still there and still showed the first 12 characters. Now I can't make any sense what so ever of what's going on. Can anyone out there help clear things up for me?     Aaron Balasch Sky Hunter Technologies Inc. Suite 101, 1725 10th Avenue S.W. Calgary, Alberta T3C 0K1 Phone: (403)228-2175 Fax: (403)244-7955 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]