Revit LT 2017 - Text Note Font doesn't diplay

[jim]

I am curious if anyone else has hit this issue. I use a windows font called Flux Architect for notes, dimensions and some tags. The font displays fine as a dimension and in tags but ALL of my notes just display rectangles for each character.  I am accustomed to this happening when I am editing this font but it displays fine otherwise. Since I am just experimenting with 2017 and not "working" with it yet this isn't an issue. I was just curious if I have a setting wrong ... Screen clip attached.

Thanks in advance for any input.

[jdiala]

JimH,

Just a shot in the dark. I believe that revit has nothing to do with this. Flux Architect font have 86 gylphs (characters) in total yet it's "unicode character range" and "code page character range" are set more that 86 characters. I think the font developer forgot to recalculate those values when he compiled the font.

Attached is a recompiled version of the font. Make sure you back-up your font before intalling this one and also restart your revit for this to take effect.

Note: Flux Architect font has an embedding license to editable. No copyright enfringement where breach in recompiling/editing this font program.

[jim]

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@jdiala wrote:

JimH,

Just a shot in the dark. I believe that revit has nothing to do with this. Flux Architect font have 86 gylphs (characters) in total yet it's "unicode character range" and "code page character range" are set more that 86 characters. I think the font developer forgot to recalculate those values when he compiled the font.

Attached is a recompiled version of the font. Make sure you back-up your font before intalling this one and also restart your revit for this to take effect.

Note: Flux Architect font has an embedding license to editable. No copyright enfringement where breach in recompiling/editing this font program.

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JDIALA - I appreciate your quick response and I thought you had this solved ..... BUT there is still something odd going on. When I open the file notes now appear as they should with the correct font. If I edit them they are just rectangles in the editor, as was common in the past. Now however, when I finish editing the font remains rectangles only on that edited note. I closed the file and reopened and all item using that font are now rectangles .... Really odd.

I was hunting for a nice free hand "architectural" style when I found this one, the hunt continues.

Thanks for your time but ....  

[jdiala]

The square characters means that there are no gylphs for that character. Which lead to my conclusion that you have multiple of the same font file intalled on your machine. The old font wasn't fully unistalled and now revit uses the new installed font but when you edit it, the font pointer is pointing on the old font file. To test my hypothesis...

Open the command prompt.

Start->Run type CMD

on the command prompt type

%windir%\Fonts

dir flux*.ttf

if there are multiple results with the same file name, then that is your culprit.

delete all those fonts and install the new one.

[renovate_99]

I don't know if this can be an issue or not but they updated a way fonts are measured inside Revit LT 2017
I remember reading this but cant find the exact page
It was a concern about updating text from an older version of Revit
This link may get you started , Sorry I cant be more help

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-lt/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2017/ENU/Revi...

[jdiala]

renovate_99,

 Are you talking about this link.

http://revitoped.blogspot.com/2016/04/revit-2017-upgrading-text-warning.html

[renovate_99]

Yes that's it ... Saw it on Autodesks website Cool

[alan.quinn · Accepted solution]

I understand that Flux Architect font is not working as expected in Revit 2017. Development is aware of this and its actually appeared a few versions ago. The general recommendation would be to find a replacement font from a mainstream font vendor such as Adobe or Monotype. We have found in the past that going to some online sites you can find many free or inexpensive fonts but these fonts may lack all the necessary details required for conversion and use in Revit. They may also not contain the full character set, which would lead to other issues in the long run, this may be why its working in some areas and not others.

The development team looking into this and other fonts issue and hopefully they will be addressed in a future update or release of the application. Also, if and when you move up to 2017 please review this link for information on upgrading Revit files to 2017. Get Up to Speed: Autodesk Revit 2017

Thanks for positing and let me know if you have additional questions or comments.

[SharonKandie]

Thank you so much for this. I was having the same problem and now it's solved.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I FIGURED IT OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After months of dealing with the following issue:

• Flux Architect showing up as little boxes/not working in all text notes and editable tags but working in dimensions and legend titles and other miscellaneous annotations
• In a text note, I could type and see the font perfectly, but once I clicked out of the text note---it would revert to the boxes

I figured out the following solution:

(I tried everything in every forum I could find---and ironically, this solution was my last effort and also the easiest)

• Install Flux Architect Regular.ttf file at the following link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RZjKl0CAcGAIoMpFZq6ZUmBnk8tsoTEH?usp=sharing
• OR try just using the file you have installed for the Regular type variant 
• Delete/Uninstall every other instance of Flux Architect installed on your computer---leaving no bolds, italics, etc..
• Confirm that in your font library for Flux Architect, there is only be one font file (Flux Architect Regular)
• Open Revit and bask in the glory of this bug solution

Autodesk has officially confirmed that this issue is a bug in Revit 2017 and 2018----so if you run into it on your own computer---try the above solution.

[Anonymous]

I was having the same issue with the font "Flux Architect" downloaded from DaFont.com not working with Revit 2018. I tried all the items listed in this post but none of them worked. It turned out that Revit does not except TrueType font types. I used an online file converter called Convertio to convert the font files from "TrueType" to "OpenType" and reinstalled the fonts and it worked.

I hope this helps others not waste nonbillable hours over a font.