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How to view a dwg file with Chinese characters?

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Yale Zhou

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Nov 9, 1998, 3:00:00 AM11/9/98
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I have some ACAD r13 DWG files with a lot of Chinese characters in it. I
opened them in Autodesk View 2.0, but only a little Chinese characters were
displayed properly, others were turned to "?". I copied those .shx files
into ..\fonts directory, but still doesn't work. These files are displayed
properly in ACAD r13.

I'm using Windows NT 4.0 Simplified Chinese edition.

Is there anybody has some ideas on it? Thanks a lot.

Yale Zhou
yale...@hotmail.com
Goodway System Integration Co., Ltd.
Shanghai, PRC.

Yale Zhou

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Nov 10, 1998, 3:00:00 AM11/10/98
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Sorry, these DWG files are all r12 format and can be displayed properly in
both ACAD r12 and r13.
-Yale Zhou

Greig Jones

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Nov 12, 1998, 3:00:00 AM11/12/98
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Hi Yale,

Have you tried using the Big Font?

1 On the Tools menu, click Options.
2 In the Options dialog box, under CAD Viewing, click DWG/DXF.
3 Click Font Map.

Font mapping allows you to substitute fonts for drawings that specify fonts that View does not have or cannot use. The font substitution affects the display of the drawing in View only, and does not change the drawing itself. If you map a font here, it will be mapped for all drawing files you open. You can add, edit, or delete a font entry.

Important: Big Font is a special type of shape definition to accommodate Asian language alphabets. You can map one Big Font to another Big Font, or one .shx font to another .shx font, but do not mix them by mapping an ..shx font to bigfont.shx or vice versa.

4 To add a font entry, deselect any selected font entries and click Add, then follow steps 5 through 7.

To edit an existing entry, select the entry and click Edit and follow steps 5 through 7.
To delete an entry, select it, click Delete, and click OK to exit the dialog box.

5 If you are adding or editing a font entry, in the Referenced Font text box, type the file name of the font being replaced.
6 If you are adding or editing a font entry, under Substitute With, type or select the file name of the substitute font.

To specify a substitute font that is not in the list, click Browse and select a font file from the Substitute Font dialog box.
If you type the font name, type its full path name unless the font file is in the Program Files\Autodesk View\fonts directory or on the font path (if any) entered as the Fonts/Shapes Search Path on the Load page of the Options dialog box.

7 Click OK in all the dialog boxes to exit.

Regards,

Greig Jones
Autodesk Product Support

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