AutoCad and TTF Fonts...

[dklarz]

I'm trying to use Arial font in an AutoCad 2000 drawing and can't seem get it to plot correctly. The font looks fine on the screen but prints as outline lettering. I've tried setting plot styles without success. Is there some kind of toggle or defualt that I'm missing? I need a TTF in this application due to conversions that are needed for additional work to be done on the file post AutoCad... Thanks.

 

[diamondjim]

Is the lettering on a special layer or special
color?

 

[dklarz]

diamondjim - I'm not sure what you mean by "special" layer... the text is on its own layer. All colors on the drawing are black with a white background. The document is part of an advertising project that will eventually be consolidated with other illustration type information from another program and printed out by the hundreds.

 

[hendie]

have a look at your TEXTFILL variable

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~ for your CAD solutions

 

[lpseifert]

We had this problem recently- the "hide objects" under plot options was inadvertently checked.

 

[dklarz]

Thanks to all for the help! I checked TEXTFILL and HIDE OBJECTS and they seem to be set correctly (TEXTFILL=1, HIDE OBJECTS is not defaulted). I think I may have unwittingly solve the problem this morning though... I'm not so much an AutoCad man as I'm a modeler (SolidWorks, Unigraphics, Inventor) so I'm not up-to-date on AutoCad releases. As I came into work this morning, I opened the file in AutoCad 2004 and everything seems to be working fine. So, I'm assuming somewhere between the 2000 that I run at home and the 2004 at work some changes have been made to AutoCad that alow it to handle True-Type Font more effectively. Make sense?

 

[hendie]

I believe SHADEMODE can also have an effect on text fill