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Text Symbol Won't Plot Correctly (Shows in Print Preview Though)

Nikki.Flack — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 22:16:32 GMT

I'm trying to plot text symbols (arrows) and it shows up fine the print preview, but when I actually plot it, the arrows show up as rectangles. Does anyone know what may be causing this?

Here's what I want it to look like (and what it looks like in the print preview):

Here's what it plots as:

Re: Text Symbol Won't Plot Correctly (Shows in Print Preview Though)

ChrisRS — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 04:33:28 GMT

What Font are you using?

Re: Text Symbol Won't Plot Correctly (Shows in Print Preview Though)

Nikki.Flack — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 17:03:39 GMT

I'm using Arial font, size 0.15. I've tried changing the text style from RS125 to Annotative and several others and none of them make any difference.

Re: Text Symbol Won't Plot Correctly (Shows in Print Preview Though)

ChrisRS — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 18:07:18 GMT

That does not look like Arial.

I cannot find those arrows in Arial.

Once we figure out the font issue, we will need to know what plot driver you are using.

It would be best if you posted a sample drawing.

Re: Text Symbol Won't Plot Correctly (Shows in Print Preview Though)

pendean — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 21:09:01 GMT

How did you insert the arrow symbols? That will tell you which font you used.

If you don't know...
Then find out how your plot-output driver is set to handle fonts to static images instead of "downloading", most likely all you need to do.

If you have absolutely no idea what anyone here is asking of you, then share your DWG file here please.

Re: Text Symbol Won't Plot Correctly (Shows in Print Preview Though)

lim.wendy — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:16:32 GMT

Hi @Nikki.Flack,

Welcome to the forum and thanks for posting. Do share your drawing with us so that we can take a look and troubleshoot. It looks like you're using special characters from within the Wingdings fonts.

Meanwhile, look at the following resources:

https://resources.imaginit.com/how-tos/autocad-when-plotting-a-pdf-characters-are-plotted-as-dots

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/special-characters-text-to-pdf-plot-as-a-string-of-dots-or/td-p/10158401