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Custom Font Issues Publishing to DWF
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Nov 6, 2009 2:34 PM
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Hello,
Hoping someone out there can assist me with this ongoing issue I've been looking into...In my office we receive various title blocks from different firms, and some of them contain a custom font type. When publishing to DWF6 ePlot.pc3, within the plotter configuration editor, custom settings, you are able to select font types to be encrypted. However, you are not able to change/revise this selection of font styles.
Bottom line, when we publish the drawing set, the custom font styles take on a new role as another font, which in turn plots incorrectly, sometimes overlapping other objects and so on.
I have also tried to publish the drawing set with all the text being captured as geometry, and this slowed the process down way too much, not even allowing the plotter to recognize the amount of memory coming through the system.
To further the confusion, when the files publish, and open in Design Review, the preview looks correct, with the correct font styles. When we open the dwf file in our third party plot request program, the text is incorrect.
Can the font style list be edited?
Are there any know AutoCAD hotfixes for this issue?
I'm using AutoCAD 2010 MEP
Best,
-Alex
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Re: Custom Font Issues Publishing to DWF
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Nov 6, 2009 5:34 PM
in response to: rezendesa
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One of your DWF6 eplot pc3 options is to include all of the fonts. Your
files will be bigger, but you should try that. Some fonts do not obey this
setting because copyright laws forbid AutoCAD from embedding the font in the
DWF file.
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Hello,
Hoping someone out there can assist me with this ongoing issue I've been
looking into...In my office we receive various title blocks from different
firms, and some of them contain a custom font type. When publishing to DWF6
ePlot.pc3, within the plotter configuration editor, custom settings, you are
able to select font types to be encrypted. However, you are not able to
change/revise this selection of font styles.
Bottom line, when we publish the drawing set, the custom font styles take on
a new role as another font, which in turn plots incorrectly, sometimes
overlapping other objects and so on.
I have also tried to publish the drawing set with all the text being
captured as geometry, and this slowed the process down way too much, not
even allowing the plotter to recognize the amount of memory coming through
the system.
To further the confusion, when the files publish, and open in Design Review,
the preview looks correct, with the correct font styles. When we open the
dwf file in our third party plot request program, the text is incorrect.
Can the font style list be edited?
Are there any know AutoCAD hotfixes for this issue?
I'm using AutoCAD 2010 MEP
Best,
-Alex
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Re: Custom Font Issues Publishing to DWF
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Nov 6, 2009 6:06 PM
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Thank you for the reply. I have been able to apply that setting, specifically when you set all fonts to be recognized as geometry, however, as you had also mentioned the files become very large. Some drawing sets we publish are 30 Sheets or more and our plotter will not recognize the file.
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Re: Custom Font Issues Publishing to DWF
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Nov 6, 2009 7:31 PM
in response to: rezendesa
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I actually just solved the issue myself. As usual a complicated problem in AutoCAD turns out to be a simple solution. For anyone having difficulty publishing custom fonts to dwf, all you have to do is copy and past the text as a block. The text encryption method does not recognize the block as text, therefore it publishes the text as it should. When the text needs to be edited, its as simple as editing the block in place.
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