Fonts Missing in AutoCAD 2008

[hgrigel]

I just installed AutoCAD 2008 on my computer and my the fonts I use the most are missing. I have been working in AutoCAD 2004. I have mapped all of the Support File Search Paths in 2008 to match my setting in 2004. I have checked the Text styles and they appear to match, but in 2008 the *.shx fonts are not appearing. I have even copied my font styles from the fonts folder in 2004 to the 2008 fonts folder to see if that would fix the problem, but it did not. Most of the fonts my office uses are *.shx fonts, so my sheets are completely void of font styles because everything is defaulting to some generic font. Has anyone encountered this problem? The two most critical fonts that I can't get to work are handletr.shx & chisel.shx. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[rkmcswain]

So if you paste this at the command line, what does it say?

(findfile "chisel.shx")

[hgrigel]

(findfile"chisel.shx")
"C:\\Program Files\\AutoCAD 2008\\Fonts\\chisel.shx"

[irneb]

Do you have the un-compiled SHP or PFB files of these fonts? Maybe there was a change in the definition of some of these things? If you do have these, try re-compiling them in 2008 ... just type COMPILE at the command line & select the relevant file.

[jpaulsen]

Is "C:\\Program Files\\AutoCAD 2008\\Fonts\\chisel.shx" in your AutoCAD search path?

[rkmcswain]

Is "C:\\Program Files\\AutoCAD 2008\\Fonts\\chisel.shx" in your AutoCAD search path?

It would have to be for this result to happen.

[jpaulsen]

It would have to be for this result to happen.

Of course, since findfile looks in the AutoCAD search path. Not awake yet I guess.

[rkmcswain]

Of course, since findfile looks in the AutoCAD search path. Not awake yet I guess.

I seem to recall seeing a few times... where the internal definition of a style contained a hard coded path to a shape (or font) file.... I don't know how that would happen, and in this case, since it's not drawing dependent, but rather machine dependent, it can't be the reason... But something to think about if you have some weird font things going on in a single drawing or even just with a particular style in a drawing...