Any Font/SHP gurus out there?

can anyone tell me how to convert these:

*194,12,x194
2,03c,1,3,2,7,50,4,2,2,034,0

*132,12,x132
2,0e4,1,3,2,7,50,4,2,2,0ec,0

to "UNIFONT" hexidecimal code?

 

..shp file header should read something like this:

*UNIFONT,6,Extended Simplex Roman for UNICODE
21,7,2,0,0,0

(The important bit above is *UNIFONT - the rest should be to suit your
definition file needs - see the help files)

In the definitions you provided, substitute
*000C2 for *194
&
*00084 for *132

I *think* that should be all you need to do.

hth,
David Kozina

 

Nope. Bummer. I still get an error that my "shape is too long".

Here's a comprison and the code looks quite different. The top is unicode,
the bottom is old code:

*02302,20,ktria
2,14,8,(-6,-21),1,0C0,084,066,06A,08C,2,8,(19,0),14,8,(-13,-10),0

*000C2,12,x194
2,03c,1,3,2,7,50,4,2,2,034,0

Make any sense to you?

 

I think you may've got something else wrong somewhere.

When you use the COMPILE command, do you also get a error line number?
That can help a lot in determining where the problem lies.

Did you insert the redefinitions in their correct sequence position in the
..shp file - i.e. between the definitions *00083 & *00085 and *000C1 &
*000C3, respectively? (Not sure if this matters, but I like to have things
in order.)

Did you REM out (with a ; at the beginning of each line) the existing *00084
and *000C2 definitions, if any?

Do you have at least one blank line at the end of your .shp file?

Taking stabs in the dark.

 

Also - is this for a bigfont definition or a regular font definition?
If it's for a bigfont file, you'll need to do a 'byte-shift' with respects
to your escape character's ascii value.
More info on what you're trying to do might help.

 

I ran into the same problem converting reg to unicode.
If I remember correctly all unicode characters need two bytes for each symbol, so when you call a subshape you need to provide two bytes for the shape number:

*000C2,13,x194
2,03c,1,3,2,7,0,50,4,2,2,034,0