Text in Titleblock displays fine on every other machine except mine.

Text in Titleblock displays fine on every other machine except mine.

bacDPF66
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Text in Titleblock displays fine on every other machine except mine.

bacDPF66
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The firm I work for received a titleblock from the the architects assigned to the project. When I open the dwg i notice the font in the titleblock is almost microscopic and I'm unable to select it unless I zoom out, in which case the text appears to look normal and selectable. When I zoom back in the text goes back to being tiny and almost invisible. When I view the same file from my coworkers machine they see everything perfectly, which leads me to believe it's something with my settings. 

zoomed out

bacDPF66_1-1631721723729.png

zoomed in

bacDPF66_2-1631721834631.png

 

 

 

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RSomppi
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Make sure the font is installed on your machine.

 

Alternatively, you could switch machines with one of your coworkers.

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bacDPF66
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Unfortunately, I work remote. I tried to install fonts that was unsuccessful
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pendean
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@bacDPF66 You either installed the fonts in the wrong spot (you have to know the font type) or installed the wrong fonts, or you did it all perfectly but forget to restart AutoCAD.

Which is it?
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bacDPF66
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Since the files that were sent all had the TTF extension, they were downloaded in the OS font folder Windows/fonts/, I didn't place them in the AutoCAD fonts folder because they weren't .SHX files, reading online I'm to understand that only .SHX files belong in there and .TFF in the OS fonts folder ...

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pendean
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And did you restart your PC? It is required.
Are they supported TTF fonts? read all about it here https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Some-T....
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bacDPF66
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I will try to reboot ty !
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bacDPF66
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It did not work.
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Valentin_CAD
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@bacDPF66 ,

 

If you place your all your fonts on a common network and add the file path to your OPTIONS > File (Tab) > Support File Search Path  (move to the top), everyone will have access to the same fonts. 

 

Sample:

ValentinWSP_0-1631733664130.png

 

Consider these links:



Select the "Mark as Solution" if my post solves your issue or answers your question.

Seleccione "Marcar como solución" si mi publicación resuelve o responde a su pregunta.


Emilio Valentin

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dan908
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It sounds like it's making a font substitution at first description. 

But if it is scaling up and down on zooming your annoallvisible setting is on and it is annoscaled text and you probably just need to adjust or add a matching scale? Check if it is an anno scale problem. Or maybe the page setup settings has plot settings displayed turned off or on. 



Dan

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jggerth
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That only applies to .SHX fonts. The OP referenced TTF, which need to be installed to the operating system on each machine.
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jggerth
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Specifically, what are the fonts?  Name, source, etc.

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pendean
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@bacDPF66 wrote:
>>>...It did not work....<<<
What did not work?

Ask your IT folks to deep dive into your system to help you diagnose the issue: if you can, share your problem DWG file and the supposed fonts you needed that fixed he issue so other over here can test it all.

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Message 14 of 19

thaibxer87
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The TTF fonts were installed into the OS folder 

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thaibxer87
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folio, folio lite.TTF
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Message 16 of 19

cwr-pae
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I can't see your images very well so i have no visual of the problem, but maybe these will help.

Just to verify, you did double click the ttf file and choose install?

Also locate the acad.fmp file (font mapping) and verify that folio isn't one of the files mapped to an alternate.

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jggerth
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Check the copyright info on the fonts installed,  if _really Folio instead of a knockoff, they should list Linotype as the rights holder.  If not, purchase a legal copy from Linotype.

 

Or replace with Arial Unicode

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jrreid
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Advocate

To see what fonts you are missing open your drawing file up.

Then press F2.

 

Look for something that should say and look this:

 

Opening an AutoCAD 2010/LT 2010 format file.
Substituting [simplex.shx] for [archstyl.shx].

 

This will tell you what font or fonts you need to add to your computer.

 

Hope this helps.

 

JRR.

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drdavisNYQSZ
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I have not seen it mentioned, but the Reference Manager will read through the file(s) or an entire directory and will detect problems with files external to the DWG file (such as not locating "font" files).

 

This is not the reference manager within the drawing editor, this is the program from AutoCAD start menu called Reference Manager (see attached) image. Hope this helps.

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