Colors, Fonts & Help

[Anonymous]

I just downloaded VV Express and have a few questions:
1. Any way to permanently set the background color (to white)?
2. Program refuses to read fonts from my autocad fonts directory;
also will not display truetype fonts.
3. Am I overlooking the "zoom previous" button?
4. It takes me about 4 minutes to connect to the internet. Is there a
normal Help file out there somewhere?

[Anonymous]

1. No. Volo View Express honors the DWG creator's intent. The background
color is whatever color was used when the DWG was created. Volo View Express
does not have code to flip white text to black, so if you made your
background white permanently, you wouldn't see text in drawings from people
who used white text on black backgrounds. You can change the background
color, but only after the drawing comes up as the author intended.

2. You are not the first to have problems with fonts. Volo View Express
ships with the same fonts that ship with AutoCAD 2000. You shouldn't have to
do anything to get it to work with TTF. We use it with TTF all the time. We
are mostly using NT 4. I happen to be using Windows 2000. Now if you have
some fonts that are custom, you'll want to use the Volo View Express options
to specify the fonts directory where they are located. Some people have done
this, but still had trouble.

3. There is no zoom previous. WHIP! didn't have one, so we never considered
it for Volo View Express. You are not the first to ask for this.

4. WHIP! was an ActiveX Control and a Netscape Navigator Plug-in. As such,
there was no way to have a local help file. It was all done with HTML on the
site. Volo View Express is essentially the same thing, but it comes with an
EXE that acts like a shell that talks to the control. SO although there is a
place to do a proper Windows help subsystem, we never did that. The
assumption was that connectivity was getting ubiquitous and bandwidth is
expanding. Having the documentation on the site makes it easy to keep
current and accurate.

"Robert Shiffman" wrote in message
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> I just downloaded VV Express and have a few questions:
> 1. Any way to permanently set the background color (to white)?
> 2. Program refuses to read fonts from my AutoCAD fonts directory;
> also will not display truetype fonts.
> 3. Am I overlooking the "zoom previous" button?
> 4. It takes me about 4 minutes to connect to the internet. Is there a
> normal Help file out there somewhere?
>

[Anonymous]

Scott, thanks for your timely reply.

Bob S.

[Anonymous]

Scott, thanks for your timely reply. I've tried a couple of times to
respond (this is the third) and the messages don't seem to be posted.
Maybe something between me and Outlook express.

Regarding the Help issue, since you seem to be instrumental in
development, please pass along the request for a local help. As I
said, several minutes to connect via modem is too long.

RS

[Anonymous]

Scott's statement that "you shouldn't have to do anything to get it to work with TT fonts" is true, but fact remains, a lot of users still can't see text in TrueType fonts, whatever they do. Scott seems to be making light of the problem. On September 8, someone finally got someone at Autodesk to acknowledge the bug really exists (see thread of that date.) Are you in touch with Bill Gilk, Scott? When can we expect working software?

[Anonymous]

I am not making light of it. People claim that TTF
don't work at all. Lots of people make this claim. Implicit in their claim is
that they work for no one and never did. What I am trying to impress upon
everyone is that for many people, they do work. If we could determine why it
works for some and not others, it may be easier to have the people for whom it
doesn't work change something on their systems so it does.

I no longer work on Volo View Express or Volo View.
ProjectPoint, which I do work on, supports Volo View Express and Volo View
which is why I continue to have an active interest in my old product. So I
cannot speak to when new versions of Volo View Express or Volo View ill come
out.

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Scott's
statement that "you shouldn't have to do anything to get it to work with TT
fonts" is true, but fact remains, a lot of users still can't see text in
TrueType fonts, whatever they do. Scott seems to be making light of the
problem. On September 8, someone finally got someone at Autodesk to
acknowledge the bug really exists (see thread of that date.) Are you in touch
with Bill Gilk, Scott? When can we expect working
software?