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Help Index symbols Symbol Manager Symbol Manager This application, which is installed with Autodesk MapGuide Author, enables you to create your own SMB files or modify SMB files installed with Autodesk MapGuide. SMB files and the individual symbols they contain can be composed of bitmap images and vector graphics. This enables you to combine vector graphics and bitmaps in one symbol, create new SMB files, or modify existing SMB files by adding and removing symbols. You can also modify the display properties of specific symbols within SMB files to specify where the symbols are inserted in a map layer and to make a bitmap color in a symbol transparent. After you modify SMB files using Symbol Manager, you use one of the other symbol managers to access the SMB file and apply the symbols in the SMB file to a point layer or redline layer. Using the Point Layer Symbol Manager dialog box from within Autodesk MapGuide Author, you can select a point layer and add symbols. For more information, see "Point Layers and the Point Layer Symbol Manager" on page 111. Using the API Symbol Manager dialog box from within Autodesk MapGuide Author, you can make symbols available to a redline layer. For more information, see "Redline Layers and the API Symbol Manager" on page 112. As well as enabling you to modify SMB files, Symbol Manager includes the following features not available in the Point Layer Symbol Manager or API Symbol Manager dialog boxes:  Creating and modifying SMB files  Importing TrueType fonts to use as symbols  Setting symbol reference points  For detailed information, choose Help Contents, click the Index tab, and look up "symbols, Symbol Manager." To start Symbol Manager   From the Start menu, choose Programs Autodesk MapGuide Release 6  Symbol Manager. 110 | Chapter 5 Working with Data in Autodesk MapGuide

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Chapter 5
Working with Data in Autodesk MapGuide
Symbol Manager
This application, which is installed with Autodesk MapGuide Author,
enables you to create your own SMB files or modify SMB files installed with
Autodesk MapGuide.
SMB files and the individual symbols they contain can be composed of bitmap
images and vector graphics. This enables you to combine vector graphics and
bitmaps in one symbol, create new SMB files, or modify existing SMB files by
adding and removing symbols. You can also modify the display properties of
specific symbols within SMB files to specify where the symbols are inserted
in a map layer and to make a bitmap color in a symbol transparent.
After you modify SMB files using Symbol Manager, you use one of the other
symbol managers to access the SMB file and apply the symbols in the SMB
file to a point layer or redline layer.
Using the Point Layer Symbol Manager dialog box from within Autodesk
MapGuide Author, you can select a point layer and add symbols. For more
information, see
“
Point Layers and the Point Layer Symbol Manager
”
on
page 111.
Using the API Symbol Manager dialog box from within Autodesk MapGuide
Author, you can make symbols available to a redline layer. For more informa-
tion, see
“
Redline Layers and the API Symbol Manager
”
on page 112.
As well as enabling you to modify SMB files, Symbol Manager includes the
following features not available in the Point Layer Symbol Manager or API
Symbol Manager dialog boxes:
Creating and modifying SMB files
Importing TrueType fonts to use as symbols
Setting symbol reference points
For detailed information, choose Help
Contents, click the Index tab, and
look up
“
symbols, Symbol Manager.
”
To start Symbol Manager
From the Start menu, choose Programs
Autodesk MapGuide Release 6
Symbol Manager.
Help Index
symbols
Symbol Manager