Great, it works! thanks a lot! Julien
Siki Zoltan ha scritto: > Hi Julien, > > ESRI shapes are only for points, lines and polygons (regions). > Universal translator converts MapInfo texts to line elements and the > text string to an attribute. So you can display them as an annotation type > layer. > > So change your layer something like this > > LAYER > DEBUG OFF > NAME "text" > TYPE ANNOTATION > STATUS OFF > TILEINDEX "priamo_text.shp" > TILEITEM "location" > LABELITEM "TEXTSTRING" > CLASS > NAME "region" > LABEL > SIZE ? > TYPE TRUETYPE > FONT ??? > COLOR ? ? ? > ANGLE "TEXT_ANGLE" > END > END > END > > You must use truetype font to rotate text. > > Zoltan > > On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Julien Buratto wrote: > >> Rahkonen Jukka ha scritto: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Correct. While MapInfo tab is database-like format and can contain >>> everything you may have in MapInfo in a single file, ESRI shapefiles can >>> only have one kind of features in one shapefile set. >>> >>> -Jukka- >> Great, so I'm getting it :-D >> Next question is, what "type" should I use to draw texts ? >> My layer containing text is: >> >> LAYER >> DEBUG OFF >> NAME "text" >> TYPE point >> STATUS OFF >> TILEINDEX "priamo_text.shp" >> TILEITEM "location" >> CLASS >> NAME "region" >> STYLE >> # OUTLINECOLOR 120 120 120 >> COLOR 0 0 0 >> >> END >> END >> END # layer >> >> the MAP header is: >> >> MAP >> NAME DEMO >> IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255 >> SIZE 530 530 >> Extent 2285117.310158 4727319.440000 2431485.920000 4871301.690000 >> FONTSET ../etc/fonts.txt >> >> Thanks again >> > > >
