Steve, et. al,
I used an ancient program called Ares FontMonger. I was trying something
pretty fancy, and never quite got it done. (Though done-enough, I did.)
I wanted to create a small map with all the Maryland counties: each letter
printing a different filled-in county. I got some of the letters working,
but I didn't have enough time to deal with some of the glitches that came
about for some counties.
I also used Corel Draw, which, believe it or not, lets you edit Fonts,
even several years ago.
Macromedia Freehand also has a utility, which I presume is more modern
than my ancient one, but I never resumed the task, as my Resource
Directory was long-ago published--with a variety of icons--but not
geographic ones, alas.
The key to creating fonts is to make sure you name them differently: Not
the filename, but the description.
Otherwise you have all these different filenames with the same internal
name: sort of like having <title>Every page has this title</title>, to
use an HTML analogy.
Margie
P.S. I had a nursing student temping for me at the time. She was typing in
all the resources for our Resource Guide. Thinking she might like to see
how the final document was shaping up, I showed her my new icons:
automatically printed in a true-type font in an Access report,
accompanying all her careful data entry. Services were for men, women,
children, free, etc: an icon for each. Not knowing what to call them, she
remarked "I really like those mammograms." (Perhaps she meant
'pictograms.') Methinks she was a first-year nursing student.
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Steve Wallace wrote:
> Would anyone with experience creating TT fonts (more specifically, for
> MapInfo Symbols) please let me know what package they used, what the
> package cost, how difficult it was and any other recommendations?
>
> I will post summary.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Steve Wallace
> GIS & Market Information Manager
> Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies
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