Hardrive crash

[Honda Matt]

My hardrive crashed and now when i open a drawing half the text is wrong style.

How do I stop this from happening. All the files where saved to a sever and when they are opened on another computer the text is fine. It like my Auto Cad is over riding the text properties and chagning them on my computer.

[StykFacE]

Does the new computer have all the fonts installed that the previous computer had?

[Honda Matt]

Yes.

Some of the text is the correct font/style but most is not.

[StykFacE]

Hmm, weird. I've never seen that issue unless something literally went wrong with the CAD file itself, but that was located on the server right? Have you tried to run the RECOVER command on the file?

[Honda Matt]

recover won't work. I had to reinstall everything and start from scratch. When a drawing is opened on another computer nothing is wrong. I don't think its the drawing I have a feeling is a setting in autocad that i need to change.

[StykFacE]

So when you check each Text Style in the drawing, it is verified that every single style does show the font to be installed and in use?

[Honda Matt]

The text that is wrong comes up as Acab Text style with the font of Technical, but should be font Stylus BT. I can go through the drawing a change each font to the Stylus BT. They are saved with that style Acab Text font Stylus BT and when opened the change to Technical and the size seems to change also.

[StykFacE]

Hmm, weird indeed. I've never ran across such a problem so that's why it's hard for me to diagnose. Anytime a font style hasn't worked it's always been a font file that is not used by AutoCAD.

[Honda Matt]

is there a setting that can be switched to use a files existing parameters.

[Honda Matt]

in the options dialog box under open & save tab. whats the Object load ObjectARX apps: & Proxy images for custom objects: for?

[ReMark]

So this really isn't about the hard drive crash per se but more about a wrong text style now displays right?

Can't you just do a global text style change?

[Honda Matt]

i can try that but the style is the correct style just the font is incorrect. and its like this on every drawing I open. I opened a drawing and did a file save as and opened it on a different computer and everything was correct on the other computer. When a print from my computer it print with the wrong font. I don't want to do through each drawings and change every font that is showing incorrectly. I would like it to open the way its been saved and opens correctly on other computers

[ReMark]

Using the Style command find out what the Font name and Font style is for each of the two fonts and post them here.

[Honda Matt]

Incorrect:
Text Style: Acab Text, Font Name: Technical

Correct:
Text Style: Acab Text, Font Name: Stylus BT

There is only on Text Style that we use and its Acab Text witht he font of Stylus BT

[StykFacE]

http://font.downloadatoz.com/download,6176,stylus-bt-font-for-windows.html

Then download/install Stylus BT and see if it yields better results.

[ccowgill]

I'm using dialup, so I dont have a lot of patience to read everything in detail, so forgive me if this has already been suggested. Is it possible that the proper style was not on the new harddrive, so the fontalt kicked in, and now that the proper font is installed, the fontalt still is substituting the incorrect font? if so, open the fontalt file and remove the substitution. otherwise, I have never heard of the textstyle being changed (other than by some other programming) automatically.

[ReMark]

Maybe I'm wrong but isn't it simply a matter of changing the font name from Technical to Stylus BT in the Style dialog box?

[ReMark]

Isn't the default for FONTALT actually simplex.shx? Unless someone purposely went and changed it in the first place.

[Honda Matt]

How do i switch to so it uses what the drawing has setup. All the fonts that have been used in the past are Auto CAD standard fonts. nothing was ever inported. I just what to ba able to open any of our drawings and have the text read correctly. The font style has changed from year to year depending on who was the drafter at that time. just starting to setup standards for this point forward and want to be able to open older drawings and print if needed.

Matt

[ReMark]

How do i switch to technic font
I thought that was the "bad" font?

[Honda Matt]

I thought that was the "bad" font?


It kinda is. I revised my post

[nestly]

I've never had to mess with FONTALT, but I've had to fix my fmp file after receiving drawings that used non-standard fonts.

This covers it all.

AutoCAD Substitute Fonts (http://docs.autodesk.com/ACD/2010/ENU/AutoCAD%202010%20User%20Documentation/files/WS1a9193826455f5ffa23ce210c4a30acaf-643b.htm)

[ccowgill]

you are right, it was font mapping that I meant, not FONTALT. Thanks for catching that.

[SLW210]

How do i switch to so it uses what the drawing has setup. All the fonts that have been used in the past are Auto CAD standard fonts. nothing was ever inported. I just what to ba able to open any of our drawings and have the text read correctly. The font style has changed from year to year depending on who was the drafter at that time. just starting to setup standards for this point forward and want to be able to open older drawings and print if needed.

Matt

Are you sure the drawing in question was saved with StylusBT as the font? Did you check to see if StyluBT was available to your machine? Is everyone in your office using AutoCAD 2009?

[Honda Matt]

Default Text Style: Acab Text with Font Stylus BT

On all the drawings I open they open with the Text Style: Acab Text with Font Technical. All the drawings were saved using Test Style: Acab Text with Stylus BT font. When they are opened on another computer they open with the correct settings. My computer is the only one that is having this problem.

Is there a way to change the font of each mtext or text with out changing them one at a time? I have tried changeing them through the properties by selecting he entire drawing and changing the text style form one to another then back the correct text style and the font does not change. I made a new text style and changed the text to that and the font still has not changed to the correct font.

This is really starting to **** me off. I takes me forever to change each text to the correct font. There has to be a setting that converts the font to the default set in the Test Style Manager.

[Jack_O'neill]

You should be able to go to the "format" menu, then down to "text style". That will open a "text style" dialog box. Displayed will be all the styles in your drawing, and you can set the font for each style there. Once you have them all where you want them, hit "apply" then close the dialog box and they should change accordingly in the whole drawing.

[Honda Matt]

I have done this many times and it does not seem to work. I have to change the font in each text in the text formating box that open when you chagne the text. I am goin to try and uninstall then re install AutoCAD and see if that works.

[ReMark]

There does not seem to be any substantive reason for uninstalling/reinstalling AutoCAD in my estimation. Long before doing that I'd give the REPAIR option a try first but I'm not sure even that is required. Post the drawing and let someone here have a crack at it.

[ReMark]

"Is there a way to change the font of each mtext or text with out changing them one at a time?"

Yes there is. I recall a short lisp routine called CS (for Change Style) that would globally change the text style.

[SLW210]

There does not seem to be any substantive reason for uninstalling/reinstalling AutoCAD in my estimation. Long before doing that I'd give the REPAIR option a try first but I'm not sure even that is required. Post the drawing and let someone here have a crack at it.

Give the repair a try, do you have the latest updates and bug fixes for AutoCAD 2009? I do recall the bug guy on CADYLIST Magazine site (Steve Johnson I believe) describing many bugs in the 2009 release.

[ReMark]

I found this lisp routine on line. Copy it to your hard drive and change the TXT extention to LSP. You can use APPLOAD to load it. Type STY to start the command. You'll be prompted for both the OLD and NEW text styles then asked to select objects. It's all pretty simple so I think you'll have no problem with it.

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