Installing font into AutoCAD

[Anonymous]

Good morning,

I have been struggling with the process of using a new font in AutoCAD. I have the font "Adobe Caslon Pro" in Adobe Photoshop and am using a combnination of Photoshop and CAD to design interior signage elevations for our most recent project. I have watched several tutorials on YouTube explaining how to insert a new font into CAD, however, to no result. 

These tutorials have mostly been detailing how to install .SHX font files, as well as .TTF files. The font "Adobe Caslon Pro" under my hard drive is listed as a .OTF file. I have apparently still installed these .OTF files into CAD, but this has not yielded the result I am after. 

I would GREATLY appreciate some help trying to figure this out. An answer on this post, or a call (216.696.5442 x 402) would be very helpful.

Thank you.

-V.M.T.

[rkmcswain]

.OTF fonts are not supported in AutoCAD. In other words, your font is not going to work in AutoCAD.

Ref: http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/AutoCAD...

[Anonymous]

Thank you. That is helpful to know. That being said, is there any way to convert .OTF to .TTF?

[rkmcswain · Accepted solution]

First hit on Google.
https://everythingfonts.com/otf-to-ttf

[Anonymous]

Thank you very much! Had to work through it, but I've got it now.

This was most helpful.

[jggerth]

well, a lot of OpenType (.OTF)  fonts will work in AutoCAD just fine.  the ones that fail are ones that are based on Postscript outlines.  That's pretty much everything from Adobe.....