Topic: How to check if font was replaced with FONTALT?

[Peter2]

Opening a DWG with missing fonts brings up the following message in the textscreen:

"Setzt [simplex.shx] für [FooFont] ein." (German)
"Use [Simplex.shx] instead of [FooFont]" (something similar in English

Is it possible to check later in the drawing-session via Lisp if a font was replaced?


Background of the question:
I opened a drawing and got the message for two fonts.
But - the fonts where there, and a check via Lisp (findfile fonts..) confirmed they were there. So just the opening made a problem for maybe some milliseconds ..

[roy_043]

Are you saying that you get this alert even though the fonts are not replaced?
It is worth checking if the search path is constant.

[Peter2]

Are you saying that you get this alert even though the fonts are not replaced?..

The other way ....

I just started to check the logs, but under thousands of drawings I found (at the moment one, maybe more ..) a drawing where

- the open command did not find the fonts (which are TTF and locally installed!) and replaced them
- the following lisp correctly found them and said "everything OK, let's print"

This is why I'm thinking not only to check
- "if the fonts are found" (which is already implemeted) but also
- if a replacing happened through open-command

[roy_043]

Maybe this only happens for the first dwg that is opened in a CAD session?

To check if this occurs you may have to:
1. Use the _COPYHIST command.
2. Read the history from the clipboard.
3. Parse the history to find this alert.

[roy_043]

Or change your LOGFILEMODE and check the .log file.

[Peter2]

OK, thanks.

(I hoped for a undocumented sysvar or something else, but I have to wait ....)