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  • We have 36 individual CAD drawings/blocks created in AUTOCAD. They are images of "traffic accident symbols". We want to convert them into True-Type fonts. How do we do this? We have this software: ESRI, AutoCad, access to Corel.


  • I seem to recall that you may be able to create fonts in CorelDraw, but I've never done it.
    Professional font designers use Macromedia Fontographer (which unfortunately hasn't been updated in quite a few years now). If you can export your CAD files to EPSs or other vector art (not CAD) format, you can import them into Fontographer. Fontographer also allows "pasting" of vector images into individual letter zones in a font. I'm pretty sure it allows pasting of EPS data, but it may also take CAD data . . . not sure.
    Unfortunately, I don't believe there's a trial version of Fontographer in which you could try this.


  • The ultimate goal is to be able to relate these individual images to a text description, as in a relational database file. Then when we define a street address, or intersection, we could drop a specific image onto a GIS map. (ArcView GIS software). Their format is called arcGIS.style In addition to the images saved in Autocad format, I have the images in *.bmp (because most people don't have AutoCad). We want the images, when dropped into the GIS map, to be able to be greatly enlarged on a map, without losing integrity.
    I will accept any comments, including just bits of advice which would point me in the right direction.


  • The solution: I found a shareware font-making program www dot high-logic dot com
    Free trial for 30 days then pay $50 for registering. I used ESRI Arcview 3.2 to individually select each image from a layout view *.dwg (converted the Autocad drawings with ESRI CADreader utility)and then export/save each as a 144 bitmap image. Then imported the bitmap image into the GLYPH as a symbol. This works like a charm.









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