I mailed that answer Tue 02/05/00 1:16 PM but it did not seem to have
arrived back to me via Mapinfo-l. I was wandering if there has been a change
in the mailing procedures (sender excluded) or if it simply fell through the
web! All my apologies if you have already received it.
Jacques
If a true type font is installed in Windows, it should be available as a
text font, but not necessarily as a Symbol. I do not know what to do for MI
to accept it as a symbol.
But you can still use it by creating a text object of one character, typing
the character code you need and selecting the text style of the "symbol"
font.
Such solution has many advanyages over the "accepted" symbols. It is not
contrained in size at 48 pts. It can be angled. It remains proportionnate to
the scale of the mapper. The drawbacks I know of are that the objects are
not centered on a given position (position of text objects is by their
anchor point = top left corner of MBR) and rotation is around that
"excentric" point. Besides their size not being constrained, one must always
check when creating objects that their point size is under control.
I have used those features in an application (GRADARRO.mbx on our site) that
positions, sizes and orientates arrows on point locations according to 2
variables similar to slope direction and intensity. I would not have been
able to do so with "symbols". A ttf name FLECHE01 containing different
straight arrow types is also available for download.
But I would still wish to learn how to make MI recognize a TTF as a symbol
font.
Jacques Paris
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Sent: May 1, 2000 9:36 AM
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Subject: MI True type fonts in Mapinfo
Hi,
When I try to set my symbols, the list of fonts in the dialog box are
limited compared what I have installed in my Window/Font directory. Is there
a certain type of true-type fonts that Mapinfo only supports ?
YC Nyon
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