Hi all, My problem is solved ^_^ Many thanks to Mohamed Salauddin and Steven Heapy. Originally, I saved the bit map as 24-bit bitmap. But after I save it as 16-bit bitmap, problem solves! I will try true type symbols fonts later, as custom bitmap symbol allow me to modify the background and colors. Here is the summary of the suggestions: Suggestion 1: Create a symbol in MS Paint and save it as a 16 colour bit map in the custsymb folder.( Path = MapInfo - Professional - Custsymb ). Now your custom symbol will be listed along with other symbols in the same folder. Excite MapInfo - Create a new layer - edit it - select the symbol style - select the custom symbol font - click on the reload option and your symbol will get added to the symbol list. Make sure that the symbol you are creating is a smaller one like the sample custom symbols. You can increase the size after it gets loaded in MapInfo Symbol list. Suggestion 2: Another option is to use true type symbols fonts instead of bitmaps. When I printed my custom symbols which were very small bitmap files the print files became enourmous and locked up the system. So I used a shareware font creator program and added various symbol fonts and created others and this was a much better option than creating bitmaps cheers, ShuHua ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
