Bug with text line thickness

[sindrih18]

Hey!

We are experiencing a weird bug in my AutoCAD projects. While working on my project all text looks normal but when published, all "M"s become thicker. This makes the drawings look really unprofessional and rushed.

How can I fix this?

I've tried:

- Rewriting everything

- Changing text styles, Standard WD and WD_IEC all give me this error

- Changed projects

Some help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

-Sindri

[rhesusminus · Accepted solution]

1. Try a different PDF viewer.
2. Type AEPDFSHX on the command line, and make sure it's set to 0. (Now, the texts won't be searchable in the PDF)

[sindrih18]

Thanks for your reply Trond!

I tried a different PDF viewer but I still had the same issue.

I changed AEPDFFONTALT to OFF and that fixed it!  Just out of curiosity, is there a way to do this without losing text searchability in the PDF?

Thanks again!

- Sindri

[rhesusminus]

No. The problem til Acrobat Reader most of the time, and how it renders the PDF.
What other PDF reader did you try?

[sindrih18]

I tried Acrobat, Foxit, Google Chrome's built-in viewer, as well as Microsoft Edge's built-in viewer.
The only other solution to this that I found was changing the text style to "ISO Proportional" which renders the "M"s correctly.

Thanks again for your help!

- Sindri

[rhesusminus]

What font are you using?

[sindrih18]

I was using Romans, but the problem persisted on many others like the ISO lineup of fonts etc.

Any font where the letter thickness was thinner than the bold "M"s has this problem. I decided on using a thicker font to "hide" the bold M's for now.

Thanks

- Sindri

[rhesusminus]

I had the time to do some checking, and the problem is actually the ROMANS Truetype font.

Use a different font instead 😄

[alds02]

@sindrih18  I remember a problem years ago with similar symptoms - the M in particular looked strange both in PDF and printed. Unfortunately I didn't document the solution. It was a printer driver or Windows update and as Trond said it was connected with Romans font. Maybe you can trace it to a recent update?