topic Re: Archicad Navigator Greek Fonts in Installation & update

Archicad Navigator Greek Fonts

Takis — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 22:57:04 GMT

Hi I have a problem with Archicad Greek fonts in Navigator-View Map menu while working on my iMac (Yosemite 10.10.2).
In Mac Prefs:
I choose as preferred language: English
Secondary Language is: Greek
Region: Cyprus

I want to have English menus on mac OSX and in Archicad I would like to give Stories Description in Greek.
Unfortunately story names, worksheets etc are only question marks in navigator with these settings.
In order to get Greek fonts in Archicad navigator I must choose Greek as preferred language.

If anyone has any solution for this I would appreciate it?

Thanks,
Takis

Re: Archicad Navigator Greek Fonts

David Collins — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 06:22:18 GMT

At some point I looked at this problem with the Greek reps in Athens and we weren't able to come up with a solution (at least not with the Windows OS). It's odd that the Greek will display properly in the stories menu, but comes up as ??!????! in the navigator. Greek text won't display properly in schedules either with this setup.

Re: Archicad Navigator Greek Fonts

Takis — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 12:09:47 GMT

David hi, thanks for replying.
For windows OS there is a solution (you can change font description in the registry H-KEY USER>>SOFTWARE>>GRAPHISOFT and modify the font description code to number 161) and the problem is solved.

Is there anything similar for MAC OSX?

Re: Archicad Navigator Greek Fonts

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 15:47:40 GMT

I don't have a Mac but the Mac OS has an equivalent to the Windows Registry:

http://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/troubleshooting/setup/registry-or-preferences/#Mac_OS_X_Preferences

So you could try setting there the same things that solved the issue on Windows.

Re: Archicad Navigator Greek Fonts

Takis — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 19:04:33 GMT

Laszlo hi, thanks for the help.
Unfortunately it didn't work.
There is nothing there specific to change like a font code.
Could you ask a Graphisoft Technician if this is possible and if there is a solution?

Many thanks,
Takis

Re: Archicad Navigator Greek Fonts

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 11:13:09 GMT

I will forward this issue to GS HQ.

Re: Archicad Navigator Greek Fonts

Takis — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 12:40:53 GMT

Laszlo thanks.
Takis

Re: Archicad Navigator Greek Fonts

David Collins — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 10:45:36 GMT

Takis wrote:
For windows OS there is a solution (you can change font description in the registry H-KEY USER>>SOFTWARE>>GRAPHISOFT and modify the font description code to number 161) and the problem is solved.

Taki, thanks for posting this solution for Windows. Works great for both the Navigator and schedules. Only the story level noted in the very top bar of the ArchiCAD window still displays in swear-word Greek, but that's a minor issue. There can't be that many of us who do Greek notation with the INT English interface (or maybe there are?) but here's a screen shot that shows which register value needs to be changed to solve this problem, in Windows at least.

Re: Archicad Navigator Greek Fonts

Takis — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:42:30 GMT

David hi, I'm glad that you solved your Greek Fonts problem for windows.
To resolve the other problem I think that you should check the following in Control Panel:
Search if there is an optional update in for Greek Fonts.
Change the language format to Greek.

Send back a printscreen of your problem.

Re: Archicad Navigator Greek Fonts

Katalin Borszeki — Mon, 18 May 2015 12:25:22 GMT

Hi,
We checked the problem that Takis mentioned and this issue has already been fixed in ARCHICAD 19. Unfortunately the fix will probably not be implemented back into ARCHICAD 18.

Re: Archicad Navigator Greek Fonts

Takis — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 07:47:50 GMT

Dear Katalin hi, in Archicad 19 I still have the problem with the Greek fonts on views from Layouts.
Please see attached image.

Re: Archicad Navigator Greek Fonts

Takis — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 11:15:07 GMT

Dear Katalin hi, I have figured out that the problem with the "???" Greek fonts that appear in Archicad 19 for Mac comes out when the file was firstly created in Archicad 19 for Windows.
It seems that Greek fonts in Layouts are not recognised in Archicad 19 Mac when the file was first created in Archicad 19 Windows version.
When I suddenly saw normal Greek fonts in Archicad 19 Mac version I realised that I had to do with systems fonts incompatibility.
Could you please check out this Windows-Mac fonts incompatibility please.
Thanks.

Re: Archicad Navigator Greek Fonts

Takis — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 10:16:23 GMT

Dear Katalin, today another problem occurred in AC19 Windows 7x64 with Greek Fonts.
Greek fonts appear good in schedule view but in Layout are not understandable.

Re: Archicad Navigator Greek Fonts

Takis — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 10:18:39 GMT

Regarding the previous post reply this is the problem with Greek Fonts on schedules on Layouts AC19 Windows.

Re: Archicad Navigator Greek Fonts

Takis — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 10:33:43 GMT

Dear Katalin, the problem with Greek Fonts in AC19 Windows is resolved.
I had to change the encoding to Greek.

Re: Archicad Navigator Greek Fonts

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 10:42:30 GMT

Hello Takis,

I am having the same problem with the ??? in the schedules but with Russian characters when I place them on the layout. Can you tell me how exactly did you solve this issue?

Kind regards,
Martijn

Re: Archicad Navigator Greek Fonts

Takis — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 22:03:32 GMT

In Archicad 20, Tabs names which come from Layouts which Title is in Greek are presented with question marks.
If .pln file is first created on Windows AC20 and then this file is opened on Mac AC20 I have the above problem.

The same thing is happening with AC19.

Takis.

Re: Archicad Navigator Greek Fonts

Katalin Borszeki — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 13:05:49 GMT

Hi All, This problem appears when a combination of ARCHICAD localization settings, OS's language settings and Font Type is not correctly set.
Please set the 'Preferred Language' in 'System Preferences' to Greek (or other preferred language) on MAC OSX and use Fonts which support it's characters. Otherwise there will be "?"(question mark) signs in some parts of the program. The real solution to this kind of problem will appear in AC21.
In the meantime, please see the attached image on how to set Greek language eg. for Mac (for the Windows platform there is already a solution showed below to set the right Font Script Code). With the right setting, the problem with the "?" signs will be gone both for tabs and Schedules. Best, k

Re: Archicad Navigator Greek Fonts

Takis — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 15:38:43 GMT

Dear Katalin, thanks for the help.

Takis.