downloading fonts with voloview IE plugin

Discussion in 'AutoCAD' started by Andy Fish, Dec 2, 2003.

  1. Andy Fish

    Andy Fish Guest

    Hi,

    I am using voloview as an IE plugin to view dwg files served by a web
    server, but I beleive this problem occurs when using autodesk as well.

    After downloading the dwg file itself, the viewer makes additional requests
    to the web server to try and retrieve fonts used in the drawing. It seems to
    make one request per piece of text, not just one per font, so this can
    result in many thousands of extra requests and slows the download process to
    the point that it is often unusable (e.g. one 200Kb drawing generates over
    6Mb of network traffic).

    Anyone know of anyway to change this behaviour? The only workaround I can
    think of is saving to the local disk and then launching the file locally,
    but this is a but cumbersome for the users.

    Many thanks,

    Andy
     
    Andy Fish, Dec 2, 2003
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