AutoCAD - Block not recognising font

Block not recognising font

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Topic: Block not recognising font

Posted By: zx6roo
Subject: Block not recognising font
Date Posted: 05.Jan.2010 at 07:50

PROBLEM:

The title block is a block with attributes.

All fonts in the drawing & titleblock is set to ISO3098B.

PC1 - Mechanical 2009

Recognises the font and displays all the attributes and text int he body of the drawing correctly.

PC2 - AutoCAD 2009 (exactly the same CAD file)

The body of the drawing reconigses the font and displays correctly but the titleblock block does not and displays substitue font.

Both PCs are set up the same with support files and pointing to the font directory. I've copy the font from one PC to the next so I know it's the same. After doing the typical open/close/reboot incase it's the PC it still doesn't work. On PC2, if I change a font style ISO3098B does not show up in the list as a choice even though some of the drawing is recognising it. If I go into refedit and manually change every attribute & then put it back to the same one it will recognise the font.

It's like it's not syncing the fonts within the block. Other blocks work okay, it's just this one. Is it an internal block thing? like maybe the incorrect font was used when it was created, it got corrupted when inserted/saved or something? Or a bug in 2009?

Any advice is appreciated as I have quite a number of these to fix up as I'm unable to print if it doesn't recognise the correct font (giant titlblock text all over the place issue).

Thanks.

Replies:

Posted By: CarlB
Date Posted: 05.Jan.2010 at 09:09

Perhaps the attribute is Mtext of a particular style but font was edited to font other than set for that style. Also I couldn't exactly follow your description as you seemed to be mixing the terms "styles" and "fonts".

Posted By: Vladimir Michl
Date Posted: 05.Jan.2010 at 10:05

Blocks have no special handling of fonts. You have probably multiple text styles (different in different blocks) pointing to a similar font, or the font file is specified including its path, or you have a font mapping setup which "hides" the original font.

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Posted By: zx6roo
Date Posted: 05.Jan.2010 at 23:11

Sorry about that CarlB.

When talking about styles I mean in the 'format' 'text styles' command. When I go in there I can't see the ISO3098B font in the list when choosing which one to use for a certain style. So for example I want STANDARD to be ISO3098B but I can't as it's not anywhere in the scroll list even though the 'options' 'files' 'Support File Search Path' (and 'Working Support File Search Path') both point to the directory where it is.

The block is made up of Dtext, no Mtext at all.

This is the weird part.... if I do Mtext on PC2 that is having the above issue I can actually see the ISO3098B font in the drop down so it does know it's there, just 'format' 'text styles' doesn't recognise it.

Posted By: CarlB
Date Posted: 06.Jan.2010 at 00:36

OK, something is wrong with PC2 :)

I don't know, other than as VM mentioned perhaps a FONTMAP is affecting it.