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

[Bob Basques]

Another possible option might be to do some sort of pipeline conversion 
like . . . .

SVG --> Postscript  --> TrueType

or some other combination.

bobb



Steve Lime wrote:
> 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
>> Kentwood, MI 49512
>>
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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 
>> --
>> Yves Jacolin
>> -------------
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>>     
> donner du
>   
>> pouvoir, de la puissance d'agir." M Gauchet
>>
>> "Give freedom to people is not enough, we also have to give them the
>>     
> power
>   
>> to use this freedom, to act". M Gauchet
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