Hi,
Company standard is arial which works perfectly in Revit but for a specific project we need to use RomanS. it all looks OK on screen but it plot both on paper and pdf very very faint. As a temporary measure we are using RomanD which isn't right but it's the closest looking and plots a lot bolder.
Changing the lineweight setting in the settings for the text style doesn't help nor does making it bold. On the pdf if I zoom in really close it seems the text is hollow in the middle.
Any ideas for how I can make RomanS plot like it would do in Autocad?
Thanks again for the help on this great forum.
I found this image in a discussion from years ago which might help explain what I mean.
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RomanS has been notorious for being nigh unplottable for some time and as far as I have found, that hasn't changed. The best you can do to combat this is to make the entire Romans Text Type bold. Even so, though, the results may be highly unacceptable. This font is our company standard, but we must use Arial instead.
Thanks for your reply.
Yes this does seem to be the came which is just rubbish. The client want and use RomanS but because Revit can't display we have to use Arial which displays rather well.
I believe the reason that is plots so poorly is that RomanS is a "stick" font, and the weight of the lines is assigned by color (or whatever) in AutoCAD to make it display darker. Revit has no such capability of assigned a thicker width to these text lines as Revit does not function like that, and shows the text in it's base form.
People,
passed 4 years since this treat was called solved (but, in the end, it didn´t go exactly solved), has anyone solved how to edit in Revit the RomanS font's thickness?
Thank´s, Yaal!
Try this TTF replica. I haven't used it but I've heard it works.
Set the font to bold for it to print dark.
I had to change the extension to JPG for it to attach to this forum. When you download it just change the extension back to TTF.
Good luck.
Thanks a lot, Jrobker!!!
But I already have the RomanS.ttf, which makes me in the same place Wheeler CJ was in the beginning of the threat.
The .ttf font works, but it realy stays very thin. If you put it bold, it thckens a little bit, more like joining two hairlines together.
I read in other forums that they made a substitute font for this problem, called DIALA.
They said it contains 5 diffrent thickness, so you can ajust as you wish.
It is available at apps.exchange.autodesk.com for U$99,90 purchase, so I didn´t by it.
It´s available for free in the web, but here in my company I can´t enter download sites.
Also, I´m not gonna make everyone in the firm to install an other font, so I´ll have to adapt to what´s installed aready.
RomanS bold, and RomanD simple and bold are solving my problem for now.
If anyone tests this DIALA font, please, let us know if it´s worth it!
Well after much frustration, I solved this issue!
I believe the problem is when Revit tries to go from the .TTF font filetype to the .SHX, something messes up in the process.
After you export from Revit to AutoCAD, take a look at the properties of your text. They will have the style of RomanS, which appears to be correctly linked to the romans.shx file (under annotation -> manage text styles).
Instead of using ANY text style exported from Revit, I used just the Standard text style loaded into AutoCAD and changed the font name associated with the Standard text style to romans.shx
Next, I isolated my text layers and changed their style from RomanS to Standard. Now the text looks perfect and can be controlled via ctb/stb files and lineweights.
Little bit of leg-work post export in CAD to do this, but I'm hoping to write a LISP routine to do this for me.
Hope this helps anyone else plagued by this issue 🙂
Hello Diegas
Wondering if anyone ever responded to you about this issue? I work as a Drawing Office Manager for a small to medium sized SE company using both Revit and CAD. It would make my life massively easier if Autodesk could come up with a Roman S solution in Revit so the drawings produced in both packages didn't diifer so much?
Tried using Arial text in CAD as a work around, but the text can sometimes turn bold. Would really appreciate a Revit compatible Roman S font.
Danny
@dhannon wrote:
Hello Diegas
Wondering if anyone ever responded to you about this issue? I work as a Drawing Office Manager for a small to medium sized SE company using both Revit and CAD. It would make my life massively easier if Autodesk could come up with a Roman S solution in Revit so the drawings produced in both packages didn't diifer so much?
Tried using Arial text in CAD as a work around, but the text can sometimes turn bold. Would really appreciate a Revit compatible Roman S font.
Danny
Are you interested in fixing that?
Thank you bbarkman,
Is Roman S IV50 a new font? I'm currently working on Revit 2018 due to an ongoing project, and I can't find the font in Revit's database?
Thank you
Danny
I'm sorry to be dense bbarkman but how do I download the Roman S IV50 font? Is there a link I need to follow? I can't find it anywhere online?
Thank you,
Danny
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