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2019 Plot warning: The drawing contains text with unicode characters...

EBSPEAMD — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 12:36:38 GMT

Here at the office when I attempted to plot a font (which is being used as part of a seal) - Wingdings in 2019 - it won't do it. The warning comes up as described below:

"WARNING: The drawing contains text with unicode characters in a referenced font. The PDF may not display correctly on all viewers. Capturing fonts for this drawing is recommended"

I did not have this problem with my 2013 version or 2017 version and the only thing I could find on the matter was this link PDF created from AutoCAD does not show all characters of true type font WEBDINGS.

I'd really rather not do that because then the PDF becomes unsearchable. Does anyone know how to fix this in the 2019 version?

Thanks!

Re: 2019 Plot warning: The drawing contains text with unicode characters...

imadHabash — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 12:51:00 GMT

Hi,

would you try to update your AutoCAD , then see if any changes . >> Click <<

Re: 2019 Plot warning: The drawing contains text with unicode characters...

pendean — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:03:58 GMT

The error message explains the fix you need to implement in your PDF driver:
"...Capturing fonts for this drawing is recommended..."

Any reason you are not doing so https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/ENU/AutoCAD-Core/files/GUID-BE373C38-678A-4AF9-96AB-4195FFD6F806-htm.html

Re: 2019 Plot warning: The drawing contains text with unicode characters...

EBSPEAMD — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:09:33 GMT

Hi imadHabash,

According to Autodesk, I'm up to date with my software.

Thanks!

Re: 2019 Plot warning: The drawing contains text with unicode characters...

EBSPEAMD — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:12:12 GMT

Hi pendean,

I'm doing that. Doesn't seem to be working for some reason.

Re: 2019 Plot warning: The drawing contains text with unicode characters...

pendean — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:14:45 GMT

Post a sample DWG file with your issue, let us test it.

Re: 2019 Plot warning: The drawing contains text with unicode characters...

EBSPEAMD — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:57:32 GMT

It seems the only way to duplicate the CAD warning is to have the text xref'ed in a titleblock. However, when plotting just text in the layout, the error doesn't occur but the PDF just comes up with dots....

Re: 2019 Plot warning: The drawing contains text with unicode characters...

EBSPEAMD — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 11:33:03 GMT

Did anyone find the solution to the issue?

Thanks!

Re: 2019 Plot warning: The drawing contains text with unicode characters...

s.borello — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 19:16:39 GMT

Did you include your seal and text in the file you posted? Nothing seems to be in them, and when I created a PDF I got no warnings.

Re: 2019 Plot warning: The drawing contains text with unicode characters...

Alfred.NESWADBA — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 23:22:44 GMT

Hi,

I also don't get a warning, I can create my PDF well and it does look well, please find it attached.

Make sure that your "DWG to PDF.pc3" is the one from AutoCAD 2019 and not a migrated one from a previous release of AutoCAD.

But that sounds intersting:
>> According to Autodesk, I'm up to date with my software.

Does that mean you already had an Autodesk support employee looking to your system who was not able to solve this question?

Just to make sure can you please start command _ABOUT and show us a screenshot from that dialog?

- alfred -

Re: 2019 Plot warning: The drawing contains text with unicode characters...

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 11:07:54 GMT

Also receiving this issue on our central network content. Fixes don't appear to work.

Re: 2019 Plot warning: The drawing contains text with unicode characters...

EBSPEAMD — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 11:17:58 GMT

Sorry to hear it L_Barnett. Try to use AutoCAD PDF (High Quality Print).pc3 option. It has been working for me.

Also, somehow mysteriously, my DWG to PDF.pc3 option started working again even though I didn't do anything. So maybe a fix came in an update? I have no idea.

Re: 2019 Plot warning: The drawing contains text with unicode characters...

titus_CAD — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 18:39:47 GMT

A workaround that worked for me was instead of using the DWG to pdf.pc3 plotter I used Microsoft Print to pdf. Which leads me to believe it's a glitch in the standard plotter configuration that will need to be addressed through an update.

Re: 2019 Plot warning: The drawing contains text with unicode characters...

Alfred.NESWADBA — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 19:09:33 GMT

Hi,

>> Which leads me to believe it's a glitch in the standard plotter

>> configuration that will need to be addressed through an update.

If all would have the issue then this might be a good suggestion, but as not everyone gets the same result I'm not sure it can be solved by an update ... as configuration files shipped with the software works well for other guys here.

- alfred -

Re: 2019 Plot warning: The drawing contains text with unicode characters...

jim.overholtzer — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 17:00:03 GMT

After much research on this error, and finding no definitive answers, I'm adding that I am having the same problems as described above when using AutoCAD MEP 2019.

We were previously using the 2012 version and did not have the unicode errors.

I have made sure that we're using the 2019 version of the Autodesk DWG to PDF pc3 file.

I have made sure that "Capture fonts used in the drawing" is checked.

Still receiving the errors any time that an Unicode character is on the drawing, whether xreferenced in or Live.

See attached screenshots.

Re: 2019 Plot warning: The drawing contains text with unicode characters...

cadffm — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:09:11 GMT

I can not teach you 'how to', but if you like to share the Data (not stupid jpegs, data = DWG file).

We will find the problem and/or a solution then.

Re: 2019 Plot warning: The drawing contains text with unicode characters...

laloesch — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:34:18 GMT

Has anyone found a solution to this problem? We just upgraded to Civil 3d 2020 and this problem has reared it's ugly head. Any autocad drawing containing unicode symbols, bullets, apostrophes when printed to the "DWG to PDF pc3" throws the following error code:

"Warning: The drawing contains text with unicode characters in a referenced font. The PDF may not display correctly on all viewers. Capturing fonts for this drawing is recommended."

There is a fix on one of these fourms suggesting clicking on "pdf options" in the plot menu and then selecting "capture fonts used in the drawing" for that particular pc3. That did not work for us.

Re: 2019 Plot warning: The drawing contains text with unicode characters...

cadffm — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:46:37 GMT

@cadffm schrieb:

I can not teach you 'how to', but if you like to share the Data (not stupid jpegs, data = DWG file).

We will find the problem and/or a solution then.

Please use command ETRANSMIT and set 'INCLUDE Options' ON,

to etransmit your file as ZIP and share this zip-file with us.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2019/ENU/AutoCAD-Core/files/GUID-9A2F96E5-34D1-4504-A5F3-54BCD410041D-htm.html

When you open the DWG file, please look in the text window [F1] whether there is a message about missing fonts and symbols.

Re: 2019 Plot warning: The drawing contains text with unicode characters...

titus_CAD — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 18:46:52 GMT

So...I didn't necessarily find the root cause, but I did fix the issue for myself. There is one work-around and one fix.

To use the work-around, you can go into "PDF options" when you go to print and check the box "convert all text to geometry"

The "fix" involves the .pc3 file. I was using a .pc3 file from a 2018 version that is saved in our template folders. I went into C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2020\UserDataCache\Plotters and used the .pc3 file found there "DWG to PDF". Using this file produced no errors.

Hopefully you don't need any stupid JPEGs 🤣

Re: 2019 Plot warning: The drawing contains text with unicode characters...

EBSPEAMD — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 18:54:34 GMT

@titus_CAD - I end up using JPEGs quite a bit - mostly details - but I have tried converting them to PDFs and inserting them instead with the AutoCAD 2019 version.

My computer randomly fixed itself after I posted this topic - I still have no idea why but I appreciate your input. Hopefully, it will help someone else. 🙂