[mapserver-users] Convert SVG/EPS/PS File for Use as aSymbol

[Steve Lime]

It ain't free but I've used FontCreator
(http://www.high-logic.com/fontcreator.html) at work to
create fonts including importing simple drawings from Illustrator. Was
a pretty straight forward
package to use if I remember right.

Steve

>>> On 9/2/2009 at 3:19 PM, in message
<E534BE8FE04ADF4FA3C837466F4F35405C2BFB at KTWMAIL.ilpcs.com>, "Nolte,
Tim"
<Tim.Nolte at ipcswirelessinc.com> wrote:
> That's exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for. There is an app
called 
> FontForge that I found but it wasn't very easy to use ask I basically
had to 
> know everything there is about what goes into creating fonts.
Actually I had 
> to install this on my home Mac as there is no Windows build that
works 
> without Cygwin and X.
> 
> - Tim
> 
> ----
> Timothy J Nolte - tnolte at ilpcs.com 
> Network Planning Engineer
> 
> iPCS Wireless, Inc.
> 4717 Broadmoor Ave, Suite G
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> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Basques [mailto:Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 4:17 PM
> To: Yves Jacolin (free); Nolte, Tim; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org

> Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Convert SVG/EPS/PS File for Use as
aSymbol
> 
> A thought, is there a SVG to TrueType font convertor anywhere, this
would 
> allow for the symbol scaling . . . 
> 
> 
> bobb 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>>> "Nolte, Tim" <Tim.Nolte at ipcswirelessinc.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Looks like I forgot to mention that my desire is to convert to a
vector 
> format that I can use. It's no problem for me to create a bitmap to
use but 
> bitmaps don't scale as well as vector.
> 
> - Tim
> 
> ----
> Timothy J Nolte - tnolte at ilpcs.com 
> Network Planning Engineer
> 
> iPCS Wireless, Inc.
> 4717 Broadmoor Ave, Suite G
> Kentwood, MI 49512
> 
> Office: 616-656-5163
> PCS:    616-706-2438
> Fax:    616-554-6484
> Web: www.ipcswirelessinc.com 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yves Jacolin (free) [mailto:yjacolin at free.fr] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 3:53 PM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org 
> Cc: Nolte, Tim
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Convert SVG/EPS/PS File for Use as a
Symbol
> 
> Le mercredi 02 septembre 2009, Nolte, Tim a écrit :
>> Does anyone have any ideas of how to convert an SVG/EPS/PS file to
>> something so that I can use it as a symbol on my map? I've searched
and
>> searched for some sort of application that will convert it to
something
>> I can use, no luck.
>>
>> - Tim
> 
> Tim,
> 
> You can try imagemagick [1] ;)
> 
> Y.
> [1] http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php 
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