How to set the text style

[Anonymous]

Hi,

      When I open a cad file from friends my AutoCAD does not shows the exact text style as he set in his office or home.

It opens the normal font as attached image.

secondly, it does not has match properly.

Kindly help me in this regard.

[Kent1Cooper]

Find out from them what font  is assigned to the Style of those Text objects.  You probably don't have the right font, and AutoCAD is substituting something like ROMANS or SIMPLEX.  Are there any messages about fonts when you open the drawing?

[rkmcswain]

Right after you open this drawing, press F2 to open the text window.

Scroll up until you see something like this:

Substituting [simplex.shx] for [romans.shx].
Substituting [simplex.shx] for [A-EDED1.shx].
Substituting [simplex.shx] for [NARROW6.SHX].

In the example above, I have three fonts missing.

You can also go into the STYLE command, and browse each text style. When you find one with a substituted font, it will have a yellow shield by the font name, like this:

Find out what fonts are missing, and ask your friend for them (observe any copyrights). If they are .SHX fonts, they simply need to reside in a path, that is in the support file search path. If they are TTF, then they need to be installed in Windows.

[Anonymous]

Dear,

When I apply F2 then see the attached image result.

and when applying style command the attached dialogue box is open in which no yellow sign appears.

[Anonymous]

No message appears when I open the drawing.

[rkmcswain]

(A) You have to scroll up to the TOP of the F2 text window. Do this right after opening the drawing.

(B)That only shows one text style. Have you checked all 9 of them?

(C)Another possibility. You and your friend both have the same font (by name), but the contents of the font on each PC are different.

[Anonymous]

A= I scrolled up the top of the F2 window but shows that who I sent you.

b= Yes check all the 9

c= by double-clicking on the text it will change the text style

But how I can change the text style of the all the file.

[pendean]

Did they send you the font file along with the dwg file? Go ask them for it.

If you are not sure what to ask them for, post your DWG file here for someone else to point the font names out for you.

[rkmcswain]

@Anonymous wrote:

A= I scrolled up the top of the F2 window but shows that who I sent you.

No, this is not the top of the text window.

The top of the text window will look something like this: (The first line will say "Opening an AutoCAD XXXX format file")

Put your cursor in the text window and scroll up. In a floating command line (such as yours), the scrollbar does not appear unless your cursor is hovering over it.

[Anonymous]

Here is the top window

Kindly find the attached file.

[Anonymous]

Here is the .dwg file.

Kindly suggest me the method by which I can change the all the text style of the file.

[Vinayv4v · Accepted solution]

Hello,

When you open the drawing do you see the Missing SHX File dialog box ?

Enter command FONTALT  and enter <ARIAL>.

Save and reopen the drawing. Any changes ?

[BeKirra]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Here is the .dwg file.

Kindly suggest me the method by which I can change the all the text style of the file.

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As I see the text style with room name is "standard" on your drawing and also they are MText.

Your "standard" text style uses "Arial.ttf" font but the text content uses "Baskerville Old Face.ttf" font. This can be seen on Properties dialog.

It looks likely you don't have the font.

Ask your friend for it.

HTH

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

can you please upload the drawing so we can take a look into it.

Besides of that ... you are opening a file that is coming in a file-format from the last century. I would not be surprised if there are some items like fonts not looking identical.

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

Here is the attached file.

[Anonymous]

Not any windows appears regarding .shx missing.

But after apply FONTALT command and enter the new value of ARIAL. all the text of the file has been changed to ARIAL font style.

[Anonymous]

But the contents are same as before (fbaskervile old face)

Well

FONT ALT

what this command works.

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> Not any windows appears regarding .shx missing

Same on my side, on my system not any SHX is missing, also the dialog of command _STYLES does not show any font missing

>> But after apply FONTALT command and enter the new value of ARIAL.

>> all the text of the file has been changed to ARIAL font style.

To be honest, that sounds like you have true-type font(s) copied instead of installed ... and Arial is the one that was installed and so recognized.

Can you please show a screenshot where we can see how the text looks like when you don't use FONTALT set to Arial?

- alfred -

[Vinayv4v]

Hi,

Now does all the fonts in the below two drawings showing the same result as this.

[BeKirra]

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@Anonymous wrote:

But the contents are same as before (fbaskervile old face)

Well

FONT ALT

what this command works.

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Fontalt is not a command. It is a system variable.

There is nothing to do with "fontalt" in your case.

Type MTEDIT then select your text. You now should be able to see the font shown in the text editor is "Baskerville Old Face".

Change it to "Arial" you will be fine.

HTH