zwcad SHX Text Not Editable in PDF

[CHAKRADHAR]

In ZWCAD 2026, our drawing uses isocp.shx font inside block attributes.
When exporting to PDF, the SHX text is converted to geometry and becomes non-editable in Foxit.
Is there any way to export SHX text as real editable text without changing the drawing font standard?

text issue.dwg

without sign 1.pdf

Edited February 24 by CHAKRADHAR
I HAVE SUBMITED PDF FILE CAN ANY EDIT SHX FONT IN PDF

[CyberAngel]

You may not have a choice here, but can you convert your text to TTF from SHX? PDF should accept that as text.

[SLW210]

I can do that most of the time with the OCR (Optical character recognition) in Adobe Acrobat Pro.

 

I thought Foxit has an  OCR.

[BIGAL]

Just do a google you should be able to find a ISO.TTF font there are thousands of fonts out there. You open c:\Windows\fonts and drag the TTF onto it from memory. ISO3098B ?

 

If your lucky some one may have one already.

Edited February 24 by BIGAL

[SLW210]

I opened your PDF in Acrobat Pro and the text was editable.

 

This seems to be a Foxit issue, though as mentioned, you might want to use a TTF font if that's what Foxit needs.

 

ArialNarrow.ttf is a common replacement IIRC to ISOCP.shx

[Dahzee]

In PDF-XChange Editor, I could only edit the Title Border Text. All the node text isn't editable.

 

Using OCR in PDF-XChange, it converted all 5 pages in about 15 seconds.

 

I am using the paid-for version, so not sure if OCR is available in the free version.

[tombu]

As most of us use Microsoft Office products I switched from using AutoCAD's Swiss Lt BT TrueType font to ArialNarrow.ttf like SLW210 suggested as it's horizontally compressed to take up less space while being even more easily readable.

 

While hindsight doesn't fix your immediate problem finding a font that doesn't cause issues with your PDF software before you need to output one to PDF again would solve your issues in the future. I've struggled with the same issue even with the full paid version of Adobe with drawings by others usually because of SHX text with various width factors. Never do that with a DWG you want to output to PDF unless you don't want anyone to convert that text back again.