SHX vs TTF fonts

[Scoobydoo]

I have been CAD designing & drafting for over 15 years now, and this one issue has always boggled me, so I hope that somebody can provide me with an answer or resolution.

 

I have a drawing and most of the text styles are a TTF (true type font) and one my text styles is the AutoCAD .shx font (romans.shx).

 

When I plot to a PDF file and view the end result, all my romans.shx text looks funny. I have attached a PDF so you can see what I am talking about.

 

I have found that the only way around this is to use a true-type font for all my text styles. Is this correct? The true-type font looks pretty blocky on the drawing (especially when you do a zoom-extents on it), but when you zoom in on the drawing, it looks fine and plots fine to either a plotter or laser jet printer, whereas the romans.shx appears fine on the drawing, and plots to a full size plotter fine, but appears funny when plotting to a laser jet printer or PDF file.

 

We print our final drawings to a PDF file and upload it to Sharepoint so that others in our Co-op can download it and print the drawing out if needed. But when they plot it out, anything that has a .SHX font looks funny.

 

Is there a fix to this to where the AutoCAD .shx fonts appear "normal" when plotting to a PDF file or a laser jet?

[tzframpton]

Go to your CTB Plot Style, and the color you use, set Line Join style to Rounded, I think. Maybe it's the Line End style. It's one of those two. See if that works for ya.

[rkmcswain]

I have seen this before. What PDF driver are you using BTW?

[Scoobydoo]

Adobe PDF Converter

[Scoobydoo]

Well I changed both of them to rounded, and IT WORKED!!! You are the bomb! This is something that has bothered me for the last 5 years! I would just change the text font to a TTF, and it worked, but this is a quicker/easier fix to that. Thank you so much!!