topic Re: Font issues with ArchiCAD 14 in Installation & update

Font issues with ArchiCAD 14

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:05:42 GMT

Hello. I am having a funny issue with a true type font in ArchiCAD 14 not wanting to Bold. In version 13, everything worked well with this font, including the Bold and Italics feature, but when i open this file in version 14, neither the Bold nor Italics features are working with the same font.

Does anyone have an answer to this issue?

Re: Font issues with ArchiCAD 14

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:38:40 GMT

What font?

Re: Font issues with ArchiCAD 14

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:16:02 GMT

It is a font a co-worker created, but I noticed the same problem with fonts like Century, Geneva and Monaco to name a few.

Re: Font issues with ArchiCAD 14

Barry Kelly — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:36:41 GMT

What OS are you on.
No problem here with those fonts on Windows 7.
Barry.

Re: Font issues with ArchiCAD 14

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:51:42 GMT

I am running a Mac OS 10.6.6. I did not have these issues with ArchiCAD 13 on the same OS.

Re: Font issues with ArchiCAD 14

David Maudlin — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:55:43 GMT

I am seeing the same behavior on OSX.5: in AC 14 the bold and italic styles are only available if shown as part of a font family in a sub menu, the style buttons don't work. AC 13 doesn't use the sub menus, but the style buttons work on any font.

hnorman:
You should add a Signature to your Profile (click the Profile button near the top of this page) with your ArchiCAD version and operating system (see mine for an example) for more accurate help in this forum.

David

Re: Font issues with ArchiCAD 14

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:31:19 GMT

David: thanks for the suggestion. My profile has been updated.

So it appears there is nothing we can do regarding the fonts on version 14? Does anyone know how to work around the problem?

Re: Font issues with ArchiCAD 14

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:04:21 GMT

hnorman wrote:
David: thanks for the suggestion. My profile has been updated.

So it appears there is nothing we can do regarding the fonts on version 14? Does anyone know how to work around the problem?

You could get the full type family. Then you will have bold, italic, bold italic, and perhaps letter, book, roman, light, condensed, black, demi-bold, etc (depending on the typeface).

This may be part of Apple's push to using proper letter forms. Even though they invented it (AFAIK) back in the eighties, it seems they are moving away from procedural type variations. I wouldn't be surprised if this is deprecated in Snow Leopard. GS may just be following Apple's rules.

Re: Font issues with ArchiCAD 14

Greg Kmethy — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:17:33 GMT

Up to ArchiCAD 13 (which was a Carbon application) ArchiCAD used the "ATSUI" font engine, similarly (I think) to MS Word on Mac. ArchiCAD 14 (which is a Cocoa application) uses the newer "CoreText" engine, similar to TextEdit and basically all newer Mac apps. CoreText - as Matthew correctly guessed it - does not support "procedural" or "algorithmic" fonts (Fonts that have no separate typeface for bold or italic - it was the Text Engine that generated those by "distorting" the normal typeface).

When in doubt if a Font problem is caused by ArchiCAD 14, check the Font in TextEdit. If the same problem appears there, then it's a Font problem. If a Font works well in TextEdit, but not in ArchiCAD, then maybe it's ArchiCAD's fault.