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Julien · Guest

Hi,

I just read some messages posted in July 2000 about french letters
characters in Microstation.
(See: the 'french language font' message and answers to it for more
info.)

Following Pekka Vauhkonen's advice and downloaded the
"90-series Fonts" available free at:

http://www.kolumbus.fi/povcp/eng/font_m.htm

Now remains a problem. Thought the fonts display well at screen,
accented letters are replaced by stars (*) when I want to print.

I use IPLOT with Microstation SE on Windows NT.
Choosing a laser printer or our deskjet plotter does not change
anything.

Thanks for any anwer.

Julien

Jeffrey Malter · Guest

Hello Julien,

I'm glad your chars are printing. Pekka Vauhkonen's fonts were very helpful
to me when I was learning how to create my own fonts in uStn.

With regard to:
1) Your pattern.plt file may exist, but IPLOTSRV_PATTERN_LIB in
mucage1000.cfg is looking for pattern.plb - is pattern.plt named correctly
or is the filename mis-spelled in mucage1000.cfg?

2) uStn looks through the font rsc files in sequential order, starting with
the last-loaded rsc and working back file by file to the first-loaded rsc.
It is either a) finding a font#227 in an rsc that is being read before the
rsc in which your desired font#227 is installed, or b) the cfgvar
IPLOTSRV_SYM_RSC_FILES is too long and is being truncated during processing,
thereby eliminating a needed rsc from the list.

In case a), use the fontinst.ma to open each rsc, look for an unwanted
font#227, then either eliminate the unwanted 227 (bad), alter the
IPLOTSRV_SYM_RSC_FILES cfgvar to place the offending rsc after the rsc in
which the desired 227 lives (better), or copy the desired 227 to the
first-loaded rsc (best).

In case b), alter the mucage1000.cfg. There is a limit to the length of v5
and v7 cfgvars [255 chars? I'm don't recall exactly. If so, mu_fonts.rsc is
not being included. Is font#227 installed in this file? ] Create a
user-defined path variable, then use it to define the paths for
IPLOTSRV_SYM_RSC_FILES as follows:

MU1000_RSC = "c:\Program Files\Fichiers
communs\InterPlot\iplot\resrc\system\"
# Make sure that this new var name is not already in use
# Comment lines are preceded with the pound-sign character
# Insert comment lines in the cfg file to describe and date your changes
IPLOTSRV_SYM_RSC_FILES =
$(MU1000_RSC)mu_1000\mucage.rsc;$(MU1000_RSC)mu_1000\z_f90_93.rsc;$(MU1000_R
SC)mu_1000\servitudes.rsc;$(MU1000_RSC)mu_fonts.rsc"

I suspect that case b) is your problem here. Because font#227 cannot be
found, it is being replaced by another font according to uStn's internal
logic.

hth,
Jeffrey Malter

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Julien · Guest

Hello Jeffrey,

Thank you very much for your help.
I tried to answer three days ago, but I lost my internet connection
when previewing the message and had not time enough to write it again.

All paths were OK in the ressources configuration file.
Moreover, the "pattern.plb" was correctly spelled.

As you suggested, I created and assigned the user-variable

MU1000_RSC = "c:\Program Files\Fichiers
communs\InterPlot\iplot\resrc\system\"

and used it in the .cfg file.

NOW, PRINTING CHARACTERS WITH ACCENTS WORKS PERFECTLY !

I observed that before using the MU1000_RSC variable,
the string affected to IPLOTSRV_SYM_RSC_FILES had more than 256
characters.
It is probable that the length of string variables is limited to 256
characters.

If you use all the ressource files in a folder, using the star
character (*) is also a way to shorten the lenght of the string
assigned to the ressources variable, like in
"c:\...\...\resrc\system\mu_1000\*.rsc",
or (better) : $(MU1000_RSC)mu_1000\*.rsc"

User defined variables are a complementary (and very useful) way to
better list the ressources you need.

I hope that this can help other Microstation and IPLOT users.

Best regards.

Julien

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