North Arrow Text

[garrettstuart]

After I switched to C3D2015, Dynamic North Arrow 8's text style doesn't exist anymore. It now looks like the picture (it's rotated on purpose). As you can see, the N is offset and the style is basically 'roman', which I assume is the substitute font. The style is supposed to be 'North Arrow Text', a serifed and bolder font. I have to assume that's not loading, and for the life of me I can't figure out where the font is supposed to be in Windows. 

I can put that font file in the right place once I find it, as my associates seem to have it, but I need to find it first. Any sugggestions?

[Jay_B]

There seems to be an issue with the "North Arrow Text Style" in both the 2013 & 2015 releases.

It seems to work ok when entering STYLE @ command line > Select "North Arrow Text" > set a different True Type Font (any) > click on Bodoni MT Poster Compressed Light.ttf (no need to even exit this dialog) > Select Apply after font style regular appears >Save > Exit c3d > Open.

The Windows true type fonts are installed here:

C:\Windows\Fonts\

[garrettstuart]

Well I think I may have found the heart of the issue. I don't have Poster Compressed, only Bodoni MT, and it's not a TTF. Or at the least the font is having an issue loading - there's a caution sign by it, and the preview looks like Roman. Even still I think the original font for North Arrow 8 is MT Regular, not compressed, but I'm not sure yet.

I'll try a few things and get back to you with what works for me.

[garrettstuart]

Ok well my issue seemed to be on the Windows side of things. As soon as I installed Bodoni MT into my system fonts the caution sign went away and the font loaded as it was supposed to. All is well.

Thanks for all that info.