Topic: Missing Fonts??

[mjfarrell]

It happened again last night before we went home and already started again this morning.  Seems like it is about every hour.  The user told me for now he is not adding any text, but it still messes up when he prints too.

I think you need to take over that PC and see IF and or when it happens to you, and then you might have a better idea of the who, what, where, when, and how of the problem.

Better yet, just walk away and pretend it never happened.   

yeah, yeah that's the ticket


tell him it's because of, uh Neutrino Ray bombardment....yeah

that's it                       

[whdjr]

Ok.  A couple of more questions.

1) Is the name of the font case specific?  I know some things in Lisp are.  Our font is in all CAPS but the font name in out Style is in lowercase.

2) If you have multiple files open that have the same style name but different fonts associated are there issues?


Remember, these problems are specific to one computer, not the others in our office.

[Willie]

Did the user change the txt.shx of the Standard style to RomanS.shx or a different *.shx font?

[whdjr]

Did the user change the txt.shx of the Standard style to RomanS.shx or a different *.shx font?

No the user hasn't changed the font or style.


A new determination!!  We figured out that one of the half dozen dwgs the user had open was a drawing sent to us from an engineer that created the file in Revit Structures and then converted it to dwg for us.  He hasn't opened any of those files this morning and yesterday afternoon and the problem hasn't happened anymore.

[mjfarrell]

just as I suspected!

[Matt__W]

That still doesn't explain why fonts are randomly changing.

[whdjr]

I just had him open one of these suspect dwgs while he had other files open to see how long before the fonts started messing up and it was immediate.  Also note that these issues are only cosmetic.  When we close and reopen the dwgs they are fine even when a save is performed.