Mapinfo True Type Font

Hi @ciarab, any chance the Character Encoding Reader Parameter is not correctly set?

No this is set ok. The source file should be displaying text like so-

 

 

 

 

But when I open in FME I am seeing

 

 

 

 

I have a TTF file is there a way I can assign this so it picks up the text I should be displaying. It seems like an easy thing to do but I can't get it to work.

 

 

Thanks

 

 

Ciara

The Truetype font file the text is using has used a number of the accented characters for representations of standard letters with a bar above them. The actual characters in the text in question is 'Á¶' - it's just the font that shows them as A6 with a bar above. Data Inspector displays all text using the Arial font, so you will not see the characters as you see them in Mapinfo.

If the destination format supports Truetype fonts (ie. AutoCAD or PDF), then you can set the font to be IM_GV2_LABEL, and supply the font file with the data file. The text will then appear as it did in Mapinfo. For formats that do not store the font information, you may be able to set the display font for those characters to be IM_GV2_LABEL in the viewing application (ie. ArcMap).