STRAT Posted October 25, 2002 Share Posted October 25, 2002 hi guys we recently (this week infact) changed our whole company profile. This involved new logo and font types etc. So the CAD manager here is drafting up new drawing sheet templates for us with the new true type font we're now using. It's called Frutiger 45 here's a quote from an internal e-mail he just circulated to us ..... " Previously to our font change we have experienced a small number of cases where fonts written into AutoCAD drawings have mysteriously changed size when plotted from that which is displayed on the screen during drawing construction. At the time this was generally considered a problem that was associated with corrupted drawing files and that the only definitive remedial action was to start the drawing again Currently this problem is a growing concern and in the last week we have encountered many additional cases where this 'font bug' has materialised and refused all attempts to remove it from drawings. " there have always been problems between jumping back and forth between paper space and model space but this is baffling. The new TT font is embedding somthing into the drawings themselves we believe. We though of switching back to our usual font (arial) but this text is now also changing size too. has anybody any ideas on this? [ October 25, 2002, 02:48 AM: Message edited by: STRAT ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHE Posted October 25, 2002 Share Posted October 25, 2002 wrong post I'll see if I can find out something about that prob Strat. [ October 25, 2002, 11:03 AM: Message edited by: CHE ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted October 25, 2002 Author Share Posted October 25, 2002 cheers CHE wrong post? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojciech Klepacki Posted October 26, 2002 Share Posted October 26, 2002 Hi Strat Can you mail me this annoying font on my priv? Give me a chance to check it out. Best regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted October 26, 2002 Author Share Posted October 26, 2002 i'll try and e-mail it to you on monday morning. thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted October 26, 2002 Share Posted October 26, 2002 Hi strat, Are you using these fonts on different operating systems? (I had lot's of problems with the 'futura'-group when changing on NT, W2K, XP & W98) rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted October 26, 2002 Author Share Posted October 26, 2002 well the new template sheet was set up in win2k, and is being used by operators in win98. if that has sommit to do with it i dont know. other fonts havent suffered this way before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted October 27, 2002 Share Posted October 27, 2002 we didn't have trouble with any font-type except with our coompany's default font... It's different on all pc-based operating systems and even got different results on the mac platform too. It's really annoying... and we didn't found a cure yet... nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted October 28, 2002 Share Posted October 28, 2002 Well what version of Autocad are we talking about?? And is that size problem only happening when plotting or viewing in the screen?? We also changed our default font to Frutiger 45 and 55 and we did not encounter any problems ..yet... Also we changed our font in fontographer to have a larger spacing (which is not possible to do in Autocad...) So, no probs over here... There are some updates for autocad 2000... that might help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted October 28, 2002 Author Share Posted October 28, 2002 hi quizzy the templates are being set up in ADT 3.3 and being used in ADT 3.3 and LT2000 and the font size changes on the actual plots, not the screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted October 28, 2002 Share Posted October 28, 2002 What plot driver are you using? There is a plotting update for a'cad 2000, don't know if there is one for LT2000... but i'll check it out for ya.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted October 28, 2002 Share Posted October 28, 2002 here it is.. this is a plotting update patch for LT2000 and ADT.... http://adeskftp.autodesk.com/prodsupp/autocad2000/patches/plotupdate.exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted October 29, 2002 Author Share Posted October 29, 2002 cheers guys. i got some free time this morning so i'm going to personally have a look at the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted November 4, 2002 Share Posted November 4, 2002 hey strat, Did you find a solution to the problem yet?? I you have, pls share it here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted November 4, 2002 Author Share Posted November 4, 2002 not yet. ppl have decided to temporarily switch back to arial, it's very similar looking at that size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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