I am courious to know how many of you are using True Type fonts in your drawings verses .shx files?
We use TrueType fonts for job names in title blocks, some major cover sheet information, and other small-quantity stuff, especially larger text that should look nice. Some people here once tried using one (AutoCAD's "Stylus" font) for all notes and dimensions, because they liked the hand-lettered look of it better than the .shx varieties we've seen. The problem is that with large quantities of text in TrueType fonts, the drawings took MUCH longer to open, and to regenerate. The .shx fonts are a heck of a lot faster for that. Kent Cooper, AIA drawings verses .shx files?
Amen. TT fonts are necessary for finished print over about 1/4", like titles, street names and especially cover sheets. I use simplex for anything less and it looks fine on the plotted sheet. rs
We use 100% True Type fonts, because SHX fonts (being AutoCAD vector based) cause issues with layers, colros and plotted lineweights. TTFs are color/lineweight independent. For example, if I'm using SHX fonts and have a layer for annotation marks whose color plots at .5mm (thick) then the text blobs out. Conversely, if I have a dimensions layer that is .09mm (thin) the text looks lame. I would be forced to use an additional layer for just the text, and in the process be forced to embed it into the block attributes, which IMHO is pretty dumb. TTF fonts print the same no matter what color or lineweight the text or annotation object is, and thus we can produce plots whose text looks great. Performance issues have largely been done away with as we move to >1Ghz PCs. TTFs have caused some slowdowns in deeply nested Xrefs (A2K2), so I have a QT command macro which toggles QText on and off as a cheap workaround. Alternatively, I tell people to freeze the annotation in the Xref to get around it. We have 30"x42" spec sheets that are 100% TTF text, and it's not that much of a problem that would force us back to using SHX fonts. Matt
Regarding TTF fonts, how about the difficulty in picking the insertion point? (Have to wiggle the cursor till you find the sweet spot or you get air.) Or has this gone away with 2002+ ? Dan -- ;;; For reply, change numbers to decimal
Still there in 2002 Which is a bitch, because I use the INS osnap all the time on text. I generally move the cursor to a "fat" portion of of the text, which seems to light the osnap up. Matt
