True type fonts not showing in autocad 2020

[Anonymous]

Anyone who has ever tried installing fonts in windows 10 knows that microsoft have managed to make it a complete and utter nightmare, where you spend days trying to find out why the font you want hasn't installed, and when you try to install it again you are told it is already installed, and when you finally manage to view the file (in dos cmd prompt), it has created multiple copies which are all impossible to delete because "they are being used by another process".

I have a client who has changed two of their fonts.  I downloaded the new fonts, and tried to install them in windows.  There are three varients of one font, and five of another.  I have FINALLY managed to get windows 10 to see 2 of one and 4 of the other.  Word can see these fonts, so I do know they are installed, they are not just in the folder.  And they are all definitely TTF fonts.

Now the next problem - Autocad can see the 4 fonts of one of the types, but it does not see the other at all.  And that is the one I need the most, because it is the one that changes. If the worst came to the worst I could print the writing out and trace it in autocad, but this means tracing out each letter of the alphabet, which is what it looks like I might have to do.  I have shut down and restarted both autocad and windows many times, so that is not the problem.

What is wrong with everything?  Why, in an age where technology is supposed to help us, do I have to spend days, and it looks like it might be weeks, sorting out what should be a REALLY simple thing?  Does anyone know why autocad is not recognising the installed TRUE TYPE font?

[cadffm]

1. Why we can't read the font names here? Post the Font names and mark the 4 you can see and use in Acad.

2. Please appload a picture we can see what you say: They are TrueTypeFonts..

[Anonymous]

You might have helped me a little - when I went to get a screen shot of the font file (not easy because I have two screens) I decided to make it give me all the details of the fonts, and the path to both of those files was to C:\USERS\ANNE\APPDATA\LOCAL\MICROSOFT\WINDOS\FONTS\CAECILIA-LT-STD-55-ROMAN_2.TTF & ...\CAECILIA-LT-STD-75-BOLD_1.TTF.   Although the font files are showing as .ttf , in the column which says Font type it is listing them both as Open Type.  So this presumably has something to do with it.  Which doesn't solve my problem of needing those fonts. 

If it is the case, is it possible to convert these fonts to something autocad does recognise?    I was told that Caecilia is a common font, so surely it should be possible to get it somehow?  And in any case, isn't it time that Autocad learned to use fonts other than ttf or shx files?  Particularly as it's getting the ttf files from windows anyway.

[cadffm · Accepted solution]

I can/will help you today, ich you want to talk about pink clouds in the future, ask AutoDESK ;D

>"Font type it is listing them both as Open Type"

Check the content of you open type fonts, i am pretty sure there are no vector contour informations

and this is the only thing what Acad supports from OTF Fonts.

Try to find this Font es TTF or as OTF with ttf/vector-outline information,

or check if it is legal and then try to convert the OTF to TTF (google search)

[OTF are stupid and performance eating raster-pictures and AutoCAD don't like raster data, not in PDF, JPEG and i am sure not in Fonts too. I guess thats the reason why Adesk never implemented OTF fully, fear about performance and plot(!)issues. Adesk have much enough problems on this front, also without raster-OTF]

[Anonymous]

Thank you so much, CADffm!

I went online and converted one of the ttf files to an otf file with an online converter.  I then took the new otf file and converted that to a ttf file, reinstalled it, and it is now showing up in autocad!

Obviously, although these files say they are ttf files, they are not.  In all the research I did to try and fix the problem no one mentioned that there could possibly be 'false' ttf fonts around, so thank you.

[cadffm]

But think about, "nobody else" have this Font.. and AutoCAD can display your drawings properly just on your workstation.

- Data Sharing / - etransmit incl. all external stuff like fonts

But is it really need? Your choice

your welcome

[Anonymous]

I print the drawing in pdf format, where the fonts show up as they should.

Anne

[cadffm]

Just if you print all as geometric or you embed all fonts to the pdf(pc3 setting), yes.

[RAFUSE]

I have similar issues with Win 10 and Acad fonts on a new computer. For whatever reason I right clicked on the font in question and one of the selections was to "install"! Never ran into that before. Eventually after numerous reboots the font finally showed up!