True Type Map Symbols

[Gerry Creager]

What I'd love to have time to do is cobble up a set of FreeType symbols 
but I'm not nearly artistic enough.  FreType would bypass the 
patent/copyright issues with TT.

gerry

David Bitner wrote:
> How many folks out there are using True Type for map symbols?  I am
> using True Type for my highway shields (interstate is actually made up
> of three symbols which I then show on top of eachother in red, white,
> and blue).  Has anyone put together a "font" of various map symbols? 
> If not, is there anyone else who has cobbled together a small
> selection of symbols that we could combine and make available to the
> rest of the community?
> 
> Additionally, is there (or would it be easy to add) a way that a
> symbol could be defined as a combination of three other symbols each
> with a different color so that in the mapfile, all you would need to
> do is have the symbol name and size (see interestate example above)?
> 
> 
> David
> 

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