Greetings,

Thanks very much to each of the responders to my request, especially
Mats Elfstrom and Karl Urich for their direct assistance.  I was looking
for a way to convert a TrueType font to a symbol format that MI could
read.  Here's a summary of the responses (in no particular order):

1) Andre Conrady suggested to:
"Try a little shareware True Type font editor called Softy.  You find it
under http://www.netlabs.net/hp/eburke/index.html."

2) Neil Moseley noted that:
"Some years ago I did exactly this using a shareware program called Font
monster.  I believe that this sort of change to the font is quite
trivial (just needs to be flagged as a symbol font) and does not need a
fully blown TT font editor."

3) Anssi Joutsiniemi said:
"The trial version on TypeTool is downloadable from URL
http://www.fontlab.com/tt_main.htm.  I've been quite satisfied with it."

4) Jeff James provided the do-it-yourself approach:
"You could do the following:
1. Go into Word (or anything, really), and type a character on the
screen the color and size you want to see it.
2.  Do a PrntScrn of the screen.
3.  Go into Paint, and select the 32x32 pixel containing the font
character.  (May require some zooming in, and pixel-counting.)
4.  Cut the selection out, open a new bitmap, set the size to 32x32
pixels, and paste the selected image.
5.  Save the image into the CustSymb folder as a 256 color bitmap.
That ought to do it, and shouldn't take more than five minutes or so."

Hope this helps anyone else with a similar issue.  Thanks again.

Steve

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Steven Romalewski
NYPIRG - CMAP
212-349-6460
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