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How to: increase the size of the taxiway annotations ?


Jacques Schenk
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Jacques Schenk
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How can I increase the size of the taxiway annotations like W W7 etc.

(excuse me if I use the wrong term)

In Euroscope I went to Other Settings -> Symbology settings -> Ground network -> Taxiway but I can change collor, size etc, but nothing will change on the screen.

I managed to enable runwaynumbers and treir size but for taxiways it isn't working.

What am I doing wrong ?

 

Thanks

 

Jacques

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Michael Pike
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Taxiway names (as well as holding points and stand numbers) are usually done with "free text". The settings are in Symbology->Other->Freetext

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Ned Hamilton 1215492
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But changing freetext size will change all of them not just taxi ways. And because the stands are very close to each other it can make a mess.

Ned

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Morten Jelle
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To me it is the only way to do it - I haven't heard of any other possibilities.

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Jacques Schenk
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Yes it seems to be the free text indeed.

it looks like they used the wrong layer to put the taxiway annotations on, so now you can't change them independently from a lot of other text

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Grzegorz Skrzypczak 135777
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Another question about different colours of freetext. I saw on some airports that stand numbers have different colours. Is it possible to put some freetext in different colour?

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Thimo Koolen
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Yes it seems to be the free text indeed.

it looks like they used the wrong layer to put the taxiway annotations on, so now you can't change them independently from a lot of other text

 

Nah it's not wrong. It is just a type used in the sector files.

 

I increased the size of my free text as well. Gates are close to each other for me, but I really like this size!

 

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Wenjun Zhou
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Another question about different colours of freetext. I saw on some airports that stand numbers have different colours. Is it possible to put some freetext in different colour?

 

You can do that with the [LABELS] section in sct file.

 

Example:

 

#define definedColor 39423

[LABELS]
"P0" N040.04.24.560 E116.34.30.170 definedColor
"P1" N040.04.31.747 E116.34.29.551 definedColor
"P2" N040.04.45.419 E116.34.27.311 definedColor

 

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[LABELS]
"P0" N040.04.24.560 E116.34.30.170 39423
"P1" N040.04.31.747 E116.34.29.551 39423
"P2" N040.04.45.419 E116.34.27.311 39423

 

Then you just need to enable Free Text - SCT2 in Display Settings of EuroScope. Just be careful that [LABELS] cannot be sorted into different categories in Display Settings like [FREETEXT].

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Grzegorz Skrzypczak 135777
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Wow, this one works. Thanks Guys very much!

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