topic Re: Font plotting in Modeling

Font plotting

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:51:56 GMT

Hallo,

can somebody explain to me why, when i plot a text (ex. 6 lines) with a blanco line in it, i get a square in the blanco line, when i plot.

I don't get the square on screen, and when i print to the printer.

If i use Helvetica or Monaco, there is no problem unfortunately we use century gothic which has the problem.

I tested it with several fonts, and it seems that half of them place a square where there should be a blanco line.

Is there somebody who knows how to avoid this problem?

Kind regards,
Jo

Re: Font plotting

Thomas Holm — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:38:10 GMT

It´s in you plotter driver. Your plotter can't handle all characters in all fonts, just the ones your driver interpretes. To get to the bottom with this, you need (as always) to specify platform, program versions, plotter etc. Then maybe someone could help. But I think you should start with your plotter reseller's support!

Re: Font plotting

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:27:46 GMT

Thanks for your reply Thomas,

i did forget to specify my settings,

i work with a mac-intel macbook pro system 10.4.8 and a HP designjet 500ps plotter.

I don't think its a plotterdriver problem since there are no problems when plotted from a powerbook G4.

Any idea's ?

kind regards
Jo

Re: Font plotting

Thomas Holm — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:46:43 GMT

Jo wrote:
Any idea's ?

Well, chekc that you'vve got the exact same fonts, in the same places, on this machine as on the Powerbook

Re: Font plotting

Djordje — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:09:24 GMT

Jo wrote:
Hallo,

can somebody explain to me why, when i plot a text (ex. 6 lines) with a blanco line in it, i get a square in the blanco line, when i plot.

I don't get the square on screen, and when i print to the printer.

If i use Helvetica or Monaco, there is no problem unfortunately we use century gothic which has the problem.

I tested it with several fonts, and it seems that half of them place a square where there should be a blanco line.

Is there somebody who knows how to avoid this problem?

Kind regards,
Jo

Which OS and which type are the fonts?

Re: Font plotting

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:52:02 GMT

The OS is OSX 10.4.8

The fonts are the standard installed fonts Century Gothic / Bookman & Palatino. Helvetica doesn't has this problem.

I also noticed that the text has a different text breadth in AC10 compared to AC9, this all on a intel-based mac. (see attachment)

On a powerbook mac we don't have these problems.

Re: Font plotting

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:50:21 GMT

Hi,

Was this problem ever corrected? My office is dealing with the same problem on all of the new Mac-Intel machines.

Re: Font plotting

Djordje — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:19:33 GMT

Can you print instead of plotting?

Re: Font plotting

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:36:31 GMT

Yes, printing seems to work. The squares do not show up.

(We're using the Arial font on an HP1055CM )

Re: Font plotting

Djordje — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:40:45 GMT

Thought so.

BTW, where do you find 8 pen holder for 1055? 😉

Forget about plotting, except if you (or your bureau) insists on PLT files. Obsolete.

Re: Font plotting

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:50:59 GMT

Is it with the plot driver then? We don't have a RIP for our printer, so plotting is still much faster...

Thank you!

Re: Font plotting

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:46:53 GMT

Hello,

i don't think it got something to do with the plotdriver, since the fonts are already disordered on screen.

I see you all your computers are intel-macs, that's an advantage, yesterday someone worked with his powerbook on a file made on my intel, it was a disaster. Text larger/smaller comparing to what i got on my screen. Not easy to work with !
Since we use 1 font 'century gothic' for all our plans, letters, database, .....
it is not simple to switch all these things to a font that does work with Archicad !
I was glad founding out that someone else has this problem to !
i was wondering why,
a- i was the only one
and b- that nor my dealer nor graphisoft respond to this problem.

Maybe it's a conflict with other systemparts, what i doubt, because i resetted my intel a few times hoping it would solve this problem.

I'm afraid we will have to learn to live with this bug. And create work arounds, for example, i use several textblocks instead of one to avoid the square in a empty line.

Kind regards,
Jo