Topic: Font traffic

[Mark]

I'm considering the move to true type fonts for our standards.

[ChrisCarlson]

We are currently working on the transition. TT is much cleaner and more widely accepted for PDF viewers. AutoCAD's implementation of SHX text search was atrocious.

[Dinosaur]

My only real preference was that it NOT be txt.shx but I do like the shx better if only because I could control width factor with greater precision and boldness with pen weight.  I also found the attachment point for TT fonts to be a bit dodgy when lower case and certain punctuation were involved.

[dgorsman]

TTF with the usual caveats e.g. not using AutoCAD as a substitute for Word, not using some oddball font.

[alanjt]

I do like the shx better if only because I could control width factor with greater precision and boldness with pen weight. 

Funny, that's one of the biggest reasons I like ttf.

[Matt__W]

TTF text is searchable in PDFs while SHX text is not.

[Rob...]

TTF text is searchable in PDFs while SHX text is not.

... without some sort of conversion. I think BlueBeam does it and the latest DWG to PDF driver does it, too, I think.

[ChrisCarlson]

TTF text is searchable in PDFs while SHX text is not.

... without some sort of conversion. I think BlueBeam does it and the latest DWG to PDF driver does it, too, I think.

DWG to PDF simply makes a pdf "comment" of the text entity, which is then searchable. The actual PDF is not searchable.

[Jeff H]

We use both and custom ones because we are total f**k*** morons, but seems like .shx are better for attributes especially blocks inserted with z != 0

[danallen]

TTF because I want our drawings to match our memo & letters, also using bluebeam to markup can have matching consistent appearance. Have had no issues with performance.

[rkmcswain]

.... I do like the shx better .... because I could control width factor with greater precision and boldness with pen weight.

Exactly.

I can have one style, with one font, and have an almost infinite choice of combinations of text height and thickness (pen width), whereas TTF pen widths are limited. You want text Arial text 2" high with a pen width of 0.005"? Forget it. You want Calibri 0.08" high and a pen width of 0.028"? Forget it.

With TTF, you end up having one style for regular text, one for BOLD text and one for Narrow text and even more if there are other variations of the font available.

[jonesy]

Company standards are True Type, so I use True Type

[mjfarrell]

I just generally hate all text in drawings.

[MP]

That makes sense - you seem to hate much of the text you've read anywhere.

[mjfarrell]

That makes sense - you seem to hate much of the text you've read anywhere.

I think you have me all wrong....

I don't hate all text that I've read...I do not like reading wrong information, or anything from those that are misinformed, or hold their opinions so dearly that they will not tolerate them being questioned or scrutinized for validity.