Topic: Wanted: Shxviewer for Win 7

[Peter2]

My old Shxviewer from 1998 and 2001 ran with Win XP, but now (Win 7 x64) it seem that they reached the end of their functionality 

Who can recommend a ShxViewer for current OS?

Have a fine week!

[ChrisCarlson]

SHX is pretty much going the wayside with TTF taking over. Also I suggest you upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 as main stream support ended over a year ago. 

[rkmcswain]

Win7 extended support runs til 2020.


I think @Peter2 may be talking about a shape file viewer, not font viewer. Despite the fact that both file types are similar and share a file extension.

[MP]

SHX is pretty much going the wayside with TTF taking over.

This conclusion may be applicable to your industry but it certainly isn't in Industrial or Oil & Gas.

No hostility, just sayin'.

[mjfarrell]

if you want to view shp files...QGIS  otherwise ignore this comment

[Peter2]

...talking about a shape file viewer, not font viewer....

No, I want to view SHX-fonts. There were some programs, but only for XP and older ...

if you want to view shp files...QGIS ...

No, not Shape from ESRI (GIS) and not shape SHP from Autodesk - SHX fonts from Autodesk...

...upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 ...

Only recommended for Acad 2016 and 2017 ...

[rkmcswain]

This conclusion may be applicable to your industry but it certainly isn't in Industrial or Oil & Gas.

Or Civil.
SHX fonts are still used 90% of the time here.

[mjfarrell]

This conclusion may be applicable to your industry but it certainly isn't in Industrial or Oil & Gas.

Or Civil.
SHX fonts are still used 90% of the time here.

90% of statistics are just made up

[rkmcswain]

What does this tool need to do?

Something like this?






...or display a legend of every available character in the font file?

[rkmcswain]

90% of statistics are just made up

Actually, it's more like 87.3% are made up.

[Peter2]

...or display a legend of every available character in the font file?

Yes.

[ChrisCarlson]

SHX is pretty much going the wayside with TTF taking over.

This conclusion may be applicable to your industry but it certainly isn't in Industrial or Oil & Gas.

No hostility, just sayin'.

Why is that? The advantages of TTF in the digital era far out weigh what SHX can provide. Can it be summarized as a lack of incentive to invest in upgrading?

[rkmcswain]

Obviously, this is not your first trip down this road.

[rkmcswain]

Why is that? The advantages of TTF in the digital era far out weigh what SHX can provide. Can it be summarized as a lack of incentive to invest in upgrading?

Seems like we just had this conversation.....
https://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=51365.msg564910#msg564910

[Peter2]

Obviously, this is not your first trip down this road.

Yes, that's right. But I wanted to see the "current state" of this topic (if it exists ...), because Google still returns the old software from 2005.