Hello Jonathan & Jacques,
> I'll take exception of the following statement :
>
> > I have experimented with true type font symbols in ArcView -
> > they operate very similarly to the standard MapInfo true type font
> > symbols. Both Arc and standard MI symbols use the bottom left corner of the
> > symbols as the anchor
> > point and calcualte offsets to poistion the symbol. .....
>
> I have always thought and shown that MapInfo text object
> anchor point was the upper left corner of the text box. I have used that as the
> basis for making true type symbols of text boxes (see GRADARRO.zip on
> our site).
>
> Would true type symbols have a different structure that text objects? I
> would very much appreciate confirmatiom.
Text objects anchor and rotate around the top-left of the first character.
True type symbols anchor and rotate around their local centre.
There is some odd behaviour with TT symbols which can be troublesome if your want to
rotate
unbalanced symbols (by which I mean that the ideal rotate point is not the centre of
the graphic).
It's an interesting area to experiment with in MapInfo.
Regards,
Warren Vick
Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K.
www.europa-tech.com
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