Hello everyone:

 

My assistant created a map using a ttf font that contains geological symbols.

These were rotated individually and manually to reflect their strike.

The font can be downloaded off the Internet but it is locked and cannot be embedded into a pdf file for distribution.

 

I would like to change this to a MapInfo symbol but want to retain their rotation.

Since there are more than 600 of these on a map doing this by hand is nearly impossible although there are only about 6 different types of geological symbols.

 

I can see two options:

1.         Record the rotation of the font into a field, manually replace the symbol by clicking on the font, and somehow rotate it to the font’s rotation.

 

2.         Convert the font directly to a MapInfo symbol that I can select while maintaining the rotation angle.

 

If anyone can suggest how to do this or if you have a better solution I would be more than grateful.

I’m using MapInfo 8, have Discover 8 but don’t have MapBasic if that helps.

 

Thanks in advance for any help that anyone can provide on this topic.

 

Best regards,

 

Daniel Beauchamp, P.Geol.

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