[mapguide-users] Custom Symbols

[Traian Stanev]

If you don't need symbol size to scale, you could save it into a PNG
which you can then use as a symbol in Mapguide. This should give you
transparency and let you avoid having to create a font file.
 
Traian
 

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From: Campbell, Keith A [mailto:keith.campbell at atkinsglobal.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 3:57 AM
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] Custom Symbols


Thanks Jason, I'll check these out.
 
Do you know if custom symbols can be created such that the background is
transparent. I think in MG 6.x symbols created as wmf and emf types
could have transparent backgrounds - back you did need to identify the
transparent colour in MG Author.
 
Keith

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From: Jason Birch [mailto:Jason.Birch at nanaimo.ca] 
Sent: 15 November 2006 17:46
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] Custom Symbols


Fontographer is apparently the premium font creation tool, but I've been
importing bitonal symbols into High-Logic FontCreator with a fair amount
of success.  Using fonts is a pain, but it does add some flexibility
around making sure that web and desktop GIS users are seeing the same
thing.
 
http://www.high-logic.com/
 
Jason

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From: Campbell, Keith A 
Subject: [mapguide-users] Custom Symbols
 
 I'm having some unexpected problems with custom symbols. 

Firstly, I can add symbols into a symbol library, but some of them do
not display when added to a point layer. This happens with fonts also.
I've not identified what the difference is between the ones that display
and the ones that don't as yet - perhaps there is some limit on the size
of the symbol file?

Secondly, I can't add a custom symbol that has a transparent background.
Are fonts the only way to go with this (if you can get them to display)?
If so, does anybody know of a good application that will create true
type fonts?

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