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Font not working, causing PDF issues

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Font not working, causing PDF issues

Anonymous
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I am making a title block that is consistent with my companies graphics. This includes a custom font called "Obviously." There are 2 versions of this font. A bold-wide version and a narrow standard version. The standard font came as a .ttf font, and the bold wide came as a .otf. Since ACAD doesn't do .OTF, i converted it to .ttf via a website i found on google. The converted wide bold is behaving in ACAD, but the other one seems to be causing issues. I have attached files. The unconverted one prints differently than designed, and more importantly causes the PDFs produced in either "plot" or "publish" to be unreadable, like the PDF will not even open, however, when i go to "preview" in the plot window, it does open it as a PDF and then i am able to save it to a functioning file, but it still has the skewed text. Any advise? I'm running ACAD 2019 with the latest updates.

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maxim_k
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Welcome to Autodesk Forums!

 

Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Without the fonts you use in your text styles, there is no way to provide specific advice to help solve this problem.
Can you share TTF fonts?

If yes, you need to compress them to ZIP archive in order to be able to attach here.

 


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pendean
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>>>...but the other one seems to be causing issues....<<<
Most free online converters "blow", and that is the biggest problem :cara_neutral:
Is your custom font a free one, or paid for? If free, pay to have it professionally converted if this is a dire business need.
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Anonymous
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The fonts are paid, and so i don't feel like i can share them on a public forum, and while i too am wary of online conversions of any kind, that is the one that IS working, vs the un-converted one which is causing problems.

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maxim_k
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@Anonymous wrote:

The fonts are paid, and so i don't feel like i can share them on a public forum,....


OK.

Can you share resulting PDF file?

 


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Anonymous
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thanks for your help. I cant open it in preview or acrobat, but again, if i go to "preview" in autocad in the plot page, it will open it as a PDF and then i can save it, but it still doesnt line up correctly.

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Anonymous
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Here is the PDF file if i just save the preview version. The non-bold text is way too narrow based on the model space and paperspace view.

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Anonymous
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I also just copied the title block to a new drawing, and it does the same thing.

 

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maxim_k
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

1/

 From the attached PDF I see that the non-bold font is PostScript Type 1 font, but not TTF font:

2021-10-02_08-27-36.png

I think this might be a problem. PDF engine cannot create correct representation of PS Type 1 font, when you "print" from AutoCAD.

BTW, have you seen >>>>this<<<<?

 

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>>>>The unconverted one prints differently than designed, and more importantly causes the PDFs produced in either "plot" or "publish" to be unreadable, like the PDF will not even open

 

What printer you are using in Page Setup, when you are trying to save PDF from Print window? Do you use the same printer, when you pick on Preview button in Print window?

 

 

I tried to recreate your drawing using Obviously TTF fonts I generated from Obviously Variable TTF font:

 

 

2021-10-02_12-26-36.png

 and everything seems fine in PDF output (see attached).


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Anonymous
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@maxim_k. Oh my goodness. thank you so much for helping with this. That is amazing. Ill let you know how it goes. Cheers

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Anonymous
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NAILED IT! Thanks again. I ended up uninstalling the font from my fontbook, and just reinstalling the one i needed, which was an .otf file and it worked.

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