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How do I use AppearanceSetter?

  • 24 April 2014
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fmelizard
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I've got three different very simple 3D features that I want to export to a 3D PDF. That works.

 

 

But I now want to style each feature a different colour (based on an attribute).

 

But I can't figure out AppearanceSetter. There doesn't seem to be anything in the knowledge based newer than a very old FME-Evalangelist - http://blog.safe.com/2010/04/fmeevangelist58/  - and an article about what the Holder portion does - http://fmepedia.safe.com/articles/Samples_and_Demos/Using-the-HOLDER-ports-in-the-AppearanceSetter-transformer

 

 

All I want to do is set colours - no textures.

 

 

I feel the transformer is over-complex when I want to do something very simple (the help for the transformer doesn't live up to its name either). Suggestions welcome.

 

Thanks!

 

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G
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You can use the PDFStyler for that.

 

 

 Or you can wirite colors to the relevant pdf- attributes.

 

 

Read the dpf reader/writer section in the

 

 

http://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_ReadersWriters/Default.htm#pdf/Feature_Representation.htm
fmelizard
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Hi Gio,

 

I ended up kind of figuring out AppearanceSetter - I used a testFilter to split by an attribute and then set up an AppearanceSetter for each one. Suboptimal I suspect but...

 

 

I'm not sure PDFStyler will do 3D stuff (it does work on the 2D stuff and in fact I only discovered it about 10 mins before your reply!).

 

 

Cheers,

 

Jonathan
G
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Ah, yes, i kinda missed that it was supposed to be for the 3D pdf.

 

 

I usually do that trough setting the relevant attributes like fme_color, fme_fill_color etc.

 

Rather then appearancestylers you can use a single conditional attribute creator.

 

 Or a valuerangemapper aslo very handy for colormapping.

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