Originally Posted by CADDmanVA
Ah. It is a commercial font series. I got it originally with a page layout package.
I just purchased one version on-line for 15 USD.
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Originally Posted by CADDmanVA
Ah. It is a commercial font series. I got it originally with a page layout package.
I just purchased one version on-line for 15 USD.
IMHO, using custom or 3rd party purchased fonts is a bad idea.
It creates issues if you have to send the files to anyone else.
I would tend to agree, if fonts aren't present they can be substituted so its not the end of the world, but then you might as well use a font that everybody generally has.Originally Posted by rcroke
Originally Posted by rcroke
Oh, I agree completely. I use std SHX fonts in cad.
I use Univers only for non-cad documents.
Next wish list, fonts embedded within drawings?Originally Posted by jaberwok
Our company used to use a modified simplex font until we purchased Adobe distiller. Now that we can use true type fonts we moved to Arial Narrow for everything.
I use truetypes in CAD all the time, but my rule (which applies to ALL documents from ALL apps) is never to use a font that doesn't come in the "typical" installation of Windows or the application used.Originally Posted by jaberwok
Perhaps my aversion to simplex.shx stems from my too-many years wrapping my fist around a Leroy scribe?
Arial Narrow? Wow. I tried that once and found the text to be too small for comfortable reading. I liked the narrow part of it though, I could really cram the information into my annotations on details. The major killer for the font though was reproduction. We farm out our large repro jobs to a local print house. Everything we send the them tends to get "bolder" during the process. Arial Narrow became Arial Illegible by the time we got it back.Originally Posted by ewhite
I got in the habbit of using eTransmit for that reason.
There was another thread posted which asked the question: Caps or no Caps, I guess that may have an effect on what font people are using too.