Can I 'weed out' a specific problem font?

[pmedina]

We have a font (simplex2) that is propagating throughout some drawings that is causing some problems for us. Are there any suggestions as to how to find the offending drawings? Has anyone ever automated such a process?

According to the department reporting the problem, Apparently the text exists in a known named block.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

[tedg]

We have a font (simplex2) that is propagating throughout some drawings that is causing some problems for us. Are there any suggestions as to how to find the offending drawings? Has anyone ever automated such a process?

According to the department reporting the problem, Apparently the text exists in a known named block.
Any thoughts?
Thanks

Not sure if this will help, but check out this thread which contains some lisp routines ideas to change all textstyles in drawing to a certain font, in this case it's Romas.shx.

Or if you have just one text style you need to change fonts, this can be written too.
Check out this and this too.

Hope it's of some value to you to automate the process.

[rkmcswain]

We have a font (simplex2) that is propagating throughout some drawings that is causing some problems for us. Are there any suggestions as to how to find the offending drawings? Has anyone ever automated such a process?

To clarify, fonts don't propagate. A textstyle could though.
The easiest remedy would be to eliminate "simplex2.shx" from the support file search path and set FONTALT to whatever font you want to use as a replacement.

Then when the drawing opens, it won't find "simplex2" and it will substitute whatever you specify.

Another, more direct way would be to use a font mapping file. How to is explained in HELP.

Lastly, you could write a routine to check each drawing as it opens and physically change the font reference from "simplex2" to something else, or write a batch routine to perform this on multiple DWG files without even opening them. I think ToolPac even includes a routine that could do the latter.

[jaberwok]

You may be able to find the affected files using the search function in Design Centre - either by searching for the known block or for the textstyle.
I don't know, it's just a suggestion.

[tedg]

To clarify, fonts don't propagate. A textstyle could though.
The easiest remedy would be to eliminate "simplex2.shx" from the support file search path and set FONTALT to whatever font you want to use as a replacement.

Then when the drawing opens, it won't find "simplex2" and it will substitute whatever you specify.

Another, more direct way would be to use a font mapping file. How to is explained in HELP.

Lastly, you could write a routine to check each drawing as it opens and physically change the font reference from "simplex2" to something else, or write a batch routine to perform this on multiple DWG files without even opening them. I think ToolPac even includes a routine that could do the latter.

Hey R.K... I was thinking the same thing on The OP's other post

[rkmcswain]

Hey R.K... I was thinking the same thing on The OP's other post

....and I just thought I was imagining a duplicate post