topic Re: Text in Titleblock displays fine on every other machine except mine. in AutoCAD Forum

Text in Titleblock displays fine on every other machine except mine.

bacDPF66 — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:04:56 GMT

The firm I work for received a titleblock from the the architects assigned to the project. When I open the dwg i notice the font in the titleblock is almost microscopic and I'm unable to select it unless I zoom out, in which case the text appears to look normal and selectable. When I zoom back in the text goes back to being tiny and almost invisible. When I view the same file from my coworkers machine they see everything perfectly, which leads me to believe it's something with my settings.

zoomed out

zoomed in

Re: Text in Titleblock displays fine on every other machine except mine.

RSomppi — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:13:13 GMT

Make sure the font is installed on your machine.

Alternatively, you could switch machines with one of your coworkers.

Re: Text in Titleblock displays fine on every other machine except mine.

bacDPF66 — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:17:46 GMT

Unfortunately, I work remote. I tried to install fonts that was unsuccessful

Re: Text in Titleblock displays fine on every other machine except mine.

pendean — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 17:01:15 GMT

@bacDPF66 You either installed the fonts in the wrong spot (you have to know the font type) or installed the wrong fonts, or you did it all perfectly but forget to restart AutoCAD.

Which is it?

Re: Text in Titleblock displays fine on every other machine except mine.

bacDPF66 — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 17:20:31 GMT

Since the files that were sent all had the TTF extension, they were downloaded in the OS font folder Windows/fonts/, I didn't place them in the AutoCAD fonts folder because they weren't .SHX files, reading online I'm to understand that only .SHX files belong in there and .TFF in the OS fonts folder ...

Re: Text in Titleblock displays fine on every other machine except mine.

pendean — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 17:33:20 GMT

And did you restart your PC? It is required.
Are they supported TTF fonts? read all about it here https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Some-TrueType-fonts-not-listed.html#:~:text=Restart%20AutoCAD%20to%20recognize%20the,system%20to%20register%20the%20font.&text=ttf%20extension%20but%20are%20still,the%20Fonts%20folder%20in%20Windows.

Re: Text in Titleblock displays fine on every other machine except mine.

bacDPF66 — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 17:34:07 GMT

I will try to reboot ty !

Re: Text in Titleblock displays fine on every other machine except mine.

bacDPF66 — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:04:21 GMT

It did not work.

Re: Text in Titleblock displays fine on every other machine except mine.

Valentin_CAD — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 19:22:03 GMT

@bacDPF66 ,

If you place your all your fonts on a common network and add the file path to your OPTIONS > File (Tab) > Support File Search Path (move to the top), everyone will have access to the same fonts.

Sample:

Consider these links:

Re: Text in Titleblock displays fine on every other machine except mine.

dan908 — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 04:20:42 GMT

It sounds like it's making a font substitution at first description.

But if it is scaling up and down on zooming your annoallvisible setting is on and it is annoscaled text and you probably just need to adjust or add a matching scale? Check if it is an anno scale problem. Or maybe the page setup settings has plot settings displayed turned off or on.

Re: Text in Titleblock displays fine on every other machine except mine.

jggerth — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 14:44:17 GMT

That only applies to .SHX fonts. The OP referenced TTF, which need to be installed to the operating system on each machine.

Re: Text in Titleblock displays fine on every other machine except mine.

jggerth — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 14:45:29 GMT

Specifically, what are the fonts? Name, source, etc.

Re: Text in Titleblock displays fine on every other machine except mine.

pendean — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:09:40 GMT

@bacDPF66 wrote:
>>>...It did not work....<<<
What did not work?

Ask your IT folks to deep dive into your system to help you diagnose the issue: if you can, share your problem DWG file and the supposed fonts you needed that fixed he issue so other over here can test it all.

Re: Text in Titleblock displays fine on every other machine except mine.

thaibxer87 — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 11:07:01 GMT

The TTF fonts were installed into the OS folder

Re: Text in Titleblock displays fine on every other machine except mine.

thaibxer87 — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 11:08:04 GMT

folio, folio lite.TTF

Re: Text in Titleblock displays fine on every other machine except mine.

cwr-pae — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 11:44:48 GMT

I can't see your images very well so i have no visual of the problem, but maybe these will help.

Just to verify, you did double click the ttf file and choose install?

Also locate the acad.fmp file (font mapping) and verify that folio isn't one of the files mapped to an alternate.

Re: Text in Titleblock displays fine on every other machine except mine.

jggerth — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 16:07:52 GMT

Check the copyright info on the fonts installed, if _really Folio instead of a knockoff, they should list Linotype as the rights holder. If not, purchase a legal copy from Linotype.

Or replace with Arial Unicode

Re: Text in Titleblock displays fine on every other machine except mine.

jrreid — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 14:15:36 GMT

To see what fonts you are missing open your drawing file up.

Then press F2.

Look for something that should say and look this:

Opening an AutoCAD 2010/LT 2010 format file.
Substituting [simplex.shx] for [archstyl.shx].

This will tell you what font or fonts you need to add to your computer.

Hope this helps.

JRR.

Re: Text in Titleblock displays fine on every other machine except mine.

drdavisNYQSZ — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:07:22 GMT

I have not seen it mentioned, but the Reference Manager will read through the file(s) or an entire directory and will detect problems with files external to the DWG file (such as not locating "font" files).

This is not the reference manager within the drawing editor, this is the program from AutoCAD start menu called Reference Manager (see attached) image. Hope this helps.