We have 36 individual CAD drawings/blocks created in AUTOCAD.  They
are images of "traffic accident symbols".  We want to convert them
into True-Type fonts.  How do we do this?  We have this software: 
ESRI, AutoCad, access to Corel.

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Clarification of Question by inquiring-ga on 23 Feb 2004 11:35 PST

The ultimate goal is to be able to relate these individual images to a
text description, as in a relational database file.  Then when we
define a street address, or intersection, we could drop a specific
image onto a GIS map. (ArcView GIS software). Their format is called
arcGIS.style  In addition to the images saved in Autocad format, I
have the images in *.bmp (because most people don't have AutoCad).  We
want the images, when dropped into the GIS map, to be able to be
greatly enlarged on a map, without losing integrity.

I will accept any comments, including just bits of advice which would
point me in the right direction.

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Clarification of Question by inquiring-ga on 27 Feb 2004 17:57 PST

The solution:  I found a shareware font-making program www dot high-logic dot com
Free trial for 30 days then pay $50 for registering.  I used ESRI
Arcview 3.2 to individually select each image from a layout view *.dwg
(converted the Autocad drawings with ESRI CADreader utility)and then
export/save each as a 144 bitmap image.  Then imported the bitmap
image into the GLYPH as a symbol.  This works like a charm.

I seem to recall that you may be able to create fonts in CorelDraw,
but I've never done it.

Professional font designers use Macromedia Fontographer (which
unfortunately hasn't been updated in quite a few years now).  If you
can export your CAD files to EPSs or other vector art (not CAD)
format, you can import them into Fontographer.  Fontographer also
allows "pasting" of vector images into individual letter zones in a
font.  I'm pretty sure it allows pasting of EPS data, but it may also
take CAD data . . . not sure.

Unfortunately, I don't believe there's a trial version of Fontographer
in which you could try this.