Fonts

Is there a way to take a ttf font and convert it to an shx usable font. I
have to find Kuenstler 480 BT Roman font and be able to use in autocad for
a sign we are cutting.

 

Chris a écrit :

Yes, there is a way to do it, but only using Microstation.
I used to do it for many many fonts, but sorry, french fonts ...
It was designed to be used with a lisp routine to switch beetween shx to
true type.
when you use TruuType font under ustation, you convertconverted them in
the internal font format.
when you export the DGN file to dwg, you can specify that yout want to
export font too.
thne ustation wil create shx fonts, with the same metrics thant
true-type, but of course, not filled.

 

You may have a look at the bonus tool TXTEXP in txtexp.lsp. It can explode any (TrueType)
text to individual line segments. It does not create a font definition but it may help you.

Jos

 

Would converting the ttf to a dxf help?

TTFtoDXF will do that. A search will find it.

 

I have tried using Bonus Tools in R14 to explode the text. You need to
delete all the extraneous lines that are created inside the text
outline, but it does seem to produce a reasonable outline of the
characters, with all the line ends touching, so you can convert them to
continuous polylines if you wish.

 

Well I thank everyone for the response. I ended up finding a comparable
font in a program we use called Letterease.