Webuser Forums: Making an icon from the euro sign

Hi Fusion,

I am creating some macros to enable someone to insert foreign characters into Open Office Writer documents without having to open the character map, hunt for the character and then insert it. The macros are attached to buttons on a tool bar and were labelled with a name approximating to what the macro does. For example I have one called "eacute" which puts an é (if that hasn't come out, it is an "e" with an acute accent on it). Rather than have a tool bar full of buttons with strange labels, I have put the character that the macro produces as an icon on the macro button. I have been able to do this with all the vowels and consonants that are needed except the euro sign and the "o+e". All these characters have to be converted to PNG files before they can be used as icons by Open Office. Both the euro sign (€) and the œ come out as black squares when I try to convert them to PNG files. Open Office is being used instead of MS Office because the operating system is not Windows but Linux and icons for buttons, apparently have to be in PNG format and of a certain size.

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