Jepp Flitemap - text labels, weird font sizes

Peter wrote:

I wonder if anyone else sees this problem.


Doesn't seem like a problem to me. But, I normally leave that option turned
off.


If I enable the display of cities/towns, their names appear as they
should but the font size is in most cases much too big. Also,
different towns get different size of font, but the allocation doesn't
have much relationship to the town's size.

I cannot find any way to control this - is there a way?

Nope. These are database graphics, so you basically have the ability to
toggle on or off. Database graphics are designed to automatically place and
move pertinent information so it will be in view as you change scale or, if
in the opinion of the designers some item should drop out of view at certain
scales.

Peter wrote:

wrote

Doesn't seem like a problem to me. But, I normally leave that option turned
off.

So you turn off the display of town/city outlines altogether?

That seems to be the only way to get rid of the large text labels for
these items.

So it seems.

Peter wrote:

I wonder if anyone else sees this problem.

If I enable the display of cities/towns, their names appear as they
should but the font size is in most cases much too big. Also,
different towns get different size of font, but the allocation
doesn't
have much relationship to the town's size.

Peter, I had a similar problem in FlightStar, but this one affected the
obstacle icons. Sometime after upgrading to 9.01 or a recent
individual nav data file, I noticed that my obstacle icons were nothing
but large rectangles. I recognized that in other applications, this
would be indicative of a corrupted font. Thus, I suspected that one
of the upgrades somehow corrupted the font that Jeppesen uses for these
obstacle icons.

I called Jepp's tech support to report this problem and they agreed
that a few users were having problems with font sizes/corruption after
updating to a recent nav data release. They asked me to contact
customer support to re-download and install the nav data file, but that
didn't correct the problem. The next step was to call back and request
that Jeppesen send me a CD with the latest nav data and program on it.

Installing from this CD over the existing Flightstar install corrected
the problem. If you haven't already, you should call their customer
support and mention this problem. They should already be aware of it
and should volunteer to send you the latest CD. If they don't, ask
them to. Accept nothing less. :-)

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Peter

Tim wote:

Nope. These are database graphics, so you basically have the ability
to
toggle on or off.

Actually, these graphics come from a font file and are placed on the
map by the nav data file. Go to your Jeppesen program folder and look
under the "Common" folder. There you will see a folder called Fonts.
Browse each font file to see the graphics.

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Peter