[MarcoW]

With source you mean who created the drawing? An architect.
Or do you mean what program, I don't know.

[ReMark]

You got the drawing from an architect. Fine. Now call him up and ask him to email you the font. I'm assuming he used an AutoDesk product. Is that correct? If you don't know then find out.

[rkmcswain]

Originally Posted by MarcoW

Anyone with a solution to prevent AutoCad 2007 from giving this error? (I know it's not an error ...)

This is NOT an error. AutoCAD is prompting you for a missing SHAPE file (see the title of the dialog), not a FONT file. Big difference.

Originally Posted by MarcoW

What I have done is to copy a *.shx file and renamed it to deltalt.shx. That did not work...

Right, because again, it's looking for a SHAPE file, not a FONT file.

You need to either remove the reference to the shape file, or obtain the correct shape file. Technically, you can use any shape file as long as it has the same name, but the risk in doing so is that you may end up with the wrong shapes displaying in your drawing -or- if the shape file you choose does not include the shapes required, then you will get command line errors.

More info on missing SHAPE files: http://cadpanacea.com/node/27

BTW: You will only get prompted for a missing FONT file if the font cannot be found, AND if FONTALT is not set, and then the dialog will look like the one below (it will not be a standard file selection dialog):
prompt_for_font.jpg

[rkmcswain]

Originally Posted by ReMark

Try option #2 as mentioned here. Maybe it will work.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...linkID=9240617

See my post above. It's not looking for a missing FONT file, it's looking for a missing SHAPE file.