[Qgis-user] Geological Map Symbols Continued

[gene]

The solution we were using was a True Type font (Font marker symbol) with
geological symbols (as ArcGIS with the geology ttf symbols). We cannot use
directly this ESRI police ( FAQ: What are the applicable copyright
restrictions on Esri fonts?"
<http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/32155 >  ) but
it is relatively easy to create a new True Type Font with geological symbols
with  FontForge <https://fontforge.github.io/en-US/>  . You draw the symbols
with a classical interface 


<http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/file/n5248101/fontforge2.jpg> 

and you generate the True Type Font (look at  QGIS and fonts as symbols, use
and creation with FontForge
<http://www.portailsig.org/content/qgis-et-les-polices-de-caracteres-comme-symboles-utilisation-et-creation-avec-fontforge> 
, in French but the figures are universal). You can even copy/paste a SVG
symbol as a new character of the font or export a character to a SVG file .
You can change the color and the size of a character without problem and it
is easy to distribute
 



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