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Symbol Tiger Font Family (Greek letters) does not work

shahrobm — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 18:10:15 GMT

Hi,

I'm using AutoCad 2017 on Mac Sierra. Font family "Symbol Tiger" does not work. I've selected this family of fonts, but Greek letters don't show in MTEXT. I tried using DTEXT; Greek letters show but don't print. I've attached my file for your reference.

I appreciate if you anybody can offer a solution.

Thanks,

Bahram

Re: Symbol Tiger Font Family (Greek letters) does not work

pendean — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 18:36:20 GMT

Nothing is attached.

Re: Symbol Tiger Font Family (Greek letters) does not work

shahrobm — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 19:11:38 GMT

Here's the missing file.

Thanks!

Re: Symbol Tiger Font Family (Greek letters) does not work

shahrobm — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 01:27:32 GMT

I was able to fix this issue by searching for Greek fonts for Mac, downloading the font family, and installing it through Font Book. Things work fine now. However, its still a mystery why the supplied symbols don't work.

Re: Symbol Tiger Font Family (Greek letters) does not work

pendean — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 13:28:16 GMT

>>>...its still a mystery why the supplied symbols don't work...<<<
They required the missing font files to display.

Re: Symbol Tiger Font Family (Greek letters) does not work

shahrobm — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 13:32:24 GMT

Yes, but these Greek fonts are not exactly the same as "Symbol Tiger Font" family. It seems this type of fonts, which used to work fine in the older version of Mac OS, is no longer supported. At least, there's a workaround.

Thanks for your replies.

Re: Symbol Tiger Font Family (Greek letters) does not work

maxim_k — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 14:16:06 GMT

Hi,

>>>>"Symbol Tiger Font" family

But how it looks like?
Can you attach the screenshot of Font Book app with this font?

I don't have it at hand. Is it free or commercial?

I know that some "symbol" fonts don't work in MTEXT in AC 2017 on Mac, but works in MTEXT AC 2016 for Mac on Sierra. I mean Wingdings 2 font for example.

And I am able to "print" Windings 2 font only if sys var USEQUARTZFONT=0. See attached PDF.

Maxim

Re: Symbol Tiger Font Family (Greek letters) does not work

shahrobm — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 14:29:51 GMT

The font is free. I found it from http://www.fonts2u.com/greek-regular.font

Go to Font Book and add it, which will be placed under "user defined" fonts.

Re: Symbol Tiger Font Family (Greek letters) does not work

maxim_k — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 14:34:04 GMT

But the name of the font you just referred is Greek-Regular. It is not Symbol Tiger Font.
Is this font you wrote about in your initial post?

Maxim

Re: Symbol Tiger Font Family (Greek letters) does not work

shahrobm — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 14:54:56 GMT

I was trying to use Symbol Tiger but it didn't work so I had to use Greek fonts instead. I just wanted to add Greek letters in my plot, which is now possible.

Re: Symbol Tiger Font Family (Greek letters) does not work

maxim_k — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 14:57:09 GMT

But I asked you about Symbol Tiger font in my initial post.
Greek-Regular works fine (of course).

Maxim

Re: Symbol Tiger Font Family (Greek letters) does not work

shahrobm — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 14:59:32 GMT

I couldn't get Symbol Tiger to work and I gave up on that family of fonts.