Re: Conveting Characters to Graphics

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 15050
interpreted = N
texte = >Last week my colleague asked the list if there was a way to convert a >set of characters (such as a surname) and put them in graphical format. >Responses were as follows :Here's another way to do it that works under 2.0.1 and might be simpler: Use [ConvertChars] instead, and edit your WebCatalog Prefs file so that each letter of the alphabet has its own graphic in the conversion table.65 97 where cA stands for capital A, and la stands for lowercase a. You are limited to 63 characters in the conversion string.The downside here is that you won't be able to use ConvertChars for anything else (like cleaning up curly quotes from FileMaker Pro export).Or download 2.1b2 anf play with a combination of [GetChar] and [lookup]. Lookup is good, because it's case-sensitive and you'll need that for distinguising between upper- and lower-case letters for your graphics.Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | ==== eCommerce for the Rest of Us ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Conveting Characters to Graphics (Olin 1997)
  2. Re: Conveting Characters to Graphics (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  3. Re: Conveting Characters to Graphics (Pat McCormick 1997)
  4. Conveting Characters to Graphics (Paul Keen 1997)
>Last week my colleague asked the list if there was a way to convert a >set of characters (such as a surname) and put them in graphical format. >Responses were as follows :Here's another way to do it that works under 2.0.1 and might be simpler: Use [convertchars] instead, and edit your WebCatalog Prefs file so that each letter of the alphabet has its own graphic in the conversion table.65 97 where cA stands for capital A, and la stands for lowercase a. You are limited to 63 characters in the conversion string.The downside here is that you won't be able to use ConvertChars for anything else (like cleaning up curly quotes from FileMaker Pro export).Or download 2.1b2 anf play with a combination of [GetChar] and [lookup]. Lookup is good, because it's case-sensitive and you'll need that for distinguising between upper- and lower-case letters for your graphics.Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | ==== eCommerce for the Rest of Us ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/ Grant Hulbert

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