Richard I'm not sure if you subscribe to the MapInfo-L list but there have been problems with the Universal Translator (a free utility, a cut-down version of FME from Safe Software) incorrectly handling SHP files when importing them into MapInfo.
Your email (below) says " It seems to be Ok on points only data but lines (and assume polygons) get corrupted and MapInfo refuses to load them." This is EXACTLY the problem that Universal Translator has with SHP files - ie, it's not a Manifold issue. I can email you the posts on MapInfo-L which describe this problem (there are at least 3 separate persons posting about it, I think). This is different from your issue - and may well be a good reason NOT to make SHP files from Manifold and then import them to MapInfo - ie, you would be better off exporting from Manifold in 'native' MapInfo TAB/DAT/etc filesets, or as MIF/MID (as I suggested earlier). The issue of the line styles, etc not matching from Manifold to MapInfo is something that Manifold is continually improving. In fact, if you read the MapInfo-L list, it's also currently an issue for some people for the import of all sorts of ESRI data which has stylist information, into MapInfo - it's a fact of life, for every GIS that needs to exchange data with every other GIS. IL Thomas GeoSciSoft - Perth, Australia -----Original Message----- From: Richard Sands [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Manifold-l] [Spam] SHP FILES - MANIFOLD TO MAPINFO 8.5 Gday Ian Thanks for this - someone in Spain emailed me almost immediately saying same - this forum stuff is amazing. For some reason there's a hangup between exporting files from Manifold in native MapInfo format and then importing into MapInfo - I found this before and mentioned it on Forum - seem to remember it got acknowledged it doesn't work too well. It seems to be Ok on points only data but lines (and assume polygons) get corrupted and MapInfo refuses to load them. I was sure it was a matter of getting MapInfo to read and save the info into its native format and reside in its appropriate place, but it's a bit difficult on someone else's computer and in there office to do too much scratching around. I still use CanvasGIS but haven't used it for any really serious stuff lately. It is very good. I see it still gets the stick on the web and ACDC don't seem to respond one bit which to me is a bit odd. Regards Richard -----Original Message----- From: SCISOFT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 18 October 2006 11:00 PM To: 'Richard Sands'; 'MANIFOLD-L' Subject: RE: [Manifold-l] [Spam] SHP FILES - MANIFOLD TO MAPINFO 8.5 Richard MapInfo Professional 7.5+ can use SHP files like it uses rasters such as GeoTiffs or ECW - except of course the SHP contains vector data. What happens is that the TAB file contains a reference to the SHP (and its DBF attributes file), and the MI engine handles the rendering of the vector data. Now, I have an ancient version of MI (v6.5) and I won't upgrade in the near future, so I may be wrong in this: I don't believe that the SHP files can actually be edited by MapInfo. In order to do so, what you would need to do with MapInfo v8.5 is to **import** them, using the Universal Translator tool, so that they're in native MapInfo format (DAT). Then, you have a set of MI files that can be edited as required by the client. May I ask why you didn't export the data in either native MapInfo format (what manifold would show as TAB), or in the MIF/MID exchange format? SHP is foreign to both Manifold and to MapInfo (and should be a banned format in my opinion!!). IL Thomas GeoSciSoft - Perth, Australia -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sands Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 1:56 PM To: MANIFOLD-L Subject: [Manifold-l] [Spam] SHP FILES - MANIFOLD TO MAPINFO 8.5 I've export shp files from 7.0 and emailed to client. When MapInfo 8.5 (latest version)opens them they cannot be edited. I have visited the recipient on site with my laptop and copied files to their PC from memory stick. Still no edit. Right click on the layer in MapInfo and the edit box is greyed out. The files are not read only when windows reads them and I don't have passwords to protect the data etc. I've repeated this with several files to no avail. I exported some as .mif and they worked fine in MapInfo. Only the shp files are uneditable. (in case of wonder - Lines with lots data don't seam to export from Manifold and into MapInfo as .mifs - they don't open at all in 8.5 at this end) Can anyone offer help here? Regards Richard _______________________________________________ Manifold-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/manifold-l -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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