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jonesy

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« on: January 11, 2005, 05:47:17 AM »
I have a problem on my machine with my text.

Visually it looks like romans - my font style has the font at romand. What have I changed, or what has gone wrong.

Any advice would be much appreciated

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« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2005, 07:40:02 AM »
Are you referring to MTEXT? If you have MTEXT created with RomanS font but within the text editor "force" (highlight text and manually change the font) the style to another font, the properties will still show RomanS.

Another thought, has someone changed the style definition in AutoCAD? If someone renamed the style or selected a new font this could be very confusing. Make sure yor style name is using the correct font in the style manager.

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« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2005, 08:23:39 AM »
Sorry I wasn't very clear.

What I mean is my current style is set to a Romand type font. If I edit any of the existing romand text (which sometimes looks correct) all the romand styled text in the file changes to a romans type looking font on the screen. If I place any text it visually looks like romans.
Then I check in the properties and it tells me that I am using the "romand type font" style which is what i want.
My boss comes to me to check the drawing for something and asks why does it look like the wrong font!

I have tried Mtext and Dtext, but both seem to place any romand as romans.

Is it a graphics/windows problem, could my Romand.shx be corrupt, or is there something more sinister lurking around :?

Again thanks for any advice
Tracey
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« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2005, 09:02:38 AM »
I have seen a very similar situation if the font file for the style is not in the current support path. Try checking the FONTALT variable. If AutoCAD cannot find a valid font file for the defined style it will use the font specified in the FONTALT variable.
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« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2005, 09:11:09 AM »
Just out of curiosity, does anything happen after a Regen?
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« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2005, 09:13:11 AM »
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I have seen a very similar situation if the font file for the style is not in the current support path. Try checking the FONTALT variable. If AutoCAD cannot find a valid font file for the defined style it will use the font specified in the FONTALT variable.


Thank you, thank you.
That was the problem. I have now set my fontalt at .
Will having it set that way cause any problems?
Does that mean my font "romand.shx" has got corrupted?
I am so embarrassed that after 14 years constant cad usage, that something as simple as that has tripped me up :oops:

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« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2005, 09:15:04 AM »
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Just out of curiosity, does anything happen after a Regen?


Not unless I have edited the text!
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« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2005, 09:31:28 AM »
Don't be embarrassed!  Most of the time, it IS the small things that stump us because we just take that kind of stuff for granted for so long.
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« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2005, 10:15:59 AM »
Tracey, make sure you have the correct font file in the support path of AutoCAD as well. AutoCAD only uses the fontalt if it cannot find the correct font. I would suspect that you need to either place a path to the font folder or replace the font file from another system that does not exhibit the problem.
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« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2005, 03:06:03 PM »
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Are you referring to MTEXT? If you have MTEXT created with RomanS font but within the text editor "force" (highlight text and manually change the font) the style to another font, the properties will still show RomanS.

Dan


there is a lisp file called stripmtext that works well for this problem

HTH Little :O)
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