FONTALT, FONTMAP commands don't support bigfonts
David Thompson
with the regular font as described in the online documentation:
>Chapter 9 -- Adding Text to Drawings
> Substituting Fonts
> Specifying an Alternative Default Font
>
>If your drawing specifies a font that is not currently on your system,
AutoCAD
>automatically substitutes the font designated as your alternate font.
By default,
>AutoCAD uses the simplex.shx file. However, you can specify a different
font if
>necessary. You enter the alternative font file name by changing the
FONTALT system
>variable.
>
>If you use a text style that uses a Big Font, you can map it to another
font using the
>FONTALT system variable. This system variable uses a default font file
pair of
> txt.shx, bigfont.shx.
When I try to set the alternate font, I keep getting the following
error:
>Command: fontalt
>New value for FONTALT, or . for none <"simplex.shx">:
simplex.shx,bigfont.shx
>Cannot set FONTALT to that value.
>*Invalid*
I've tried using a space, semicolon, comma, and combinations of them,
and I get the same error every time.
I've tried using fontmap files (even though we've run into other
different problems with that), and bigfonts don't seem to use the
mappings at all. They're ignored.
I even went so far as to search the registry and found the
"EmergencyFont" entry and over-wrote it directly.
When I launched R14 after that, it gives me an error message that it
can't find the fontalt "simplex.shx, bigfont"--and then asks me to
select a substitute.
Is there anyway around this? We have a automated batch printing
solution which fails when a file's bigfont can't be found. We'd like to
automatically substitute another big font. Yes, I know that will be
another problem because the alternate font will probably have a
drastically different character or symbol set. But it is preferrable to
the batch printing hanging.
Thanks for any help, David
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