Thanks to Stan Johnston and others for helping solve this problem- though how it has been solved is still a mystery Our office version of MapInfo 5.5 has a drop box with various NORTH symbols in the symbols preferences. I made several maps using one that said NORTH with an elongated wedge above it pointing upward/north. When I saved the finished products as windows metafiles the maps were fine, except that the north symbols displayed on my home computer as hatch marks, or hash marks as most people insist on calling them. It appears a windows metafile is more a file than a picture in some ways, and wants to find fonts to display some symbols properly. So I copied the MapInfo fonts into my home windows font file- and the metafiles now display the north symbol. The only bit I don't understand is that when out of curiosity I opened the MapInfo font files I transferred home, NONE of them appeared to contain that nifty NORTH symbol with the wedge above it. Still, mustn't grumble :-) Bob Hudson Archaeology Department, University of Sydney. ----------------------------------- Home pages: Archaeology at Bagan, Myanmar & Buddhist Art and Archaeology: <http://www.archaeology.usyd.edu.au/~hudson/bobhpage> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
