topic FONTS BEHAVING BADLY in Documentation

FONTS BEHAVING BADLY

kevin b — Tue, 23 May 2023 01:12:31 GMT

We have a case where fonts in a marker in ArchiCAD are different when opened on different computers. It would appear to be something in how AC numbers the fonts within the database but I can't see where that is controlled or how it could have been modified.

Using the Interior Elevation tool, using the built in IE Marker 1, when viewed and/or printed on machine 1, the font within the tool settings dialog and visual in the marker is Arial Black. On machine 2 the font is listed and appears as Arial (regular). When the font is changed on machine 1 to Arial (regular) it shows up on machine 2 as APC Courier. When changed with machine 2 back to Arial (regular) it behaves as Arial Black on machine 1.

Both machines have the same fonts, located in the same folder (same path) on each hard drive, both sets of fonts were taken from the same folder of fonts on our company server.

This is on a TW AC14 project, these are the only two machines in the office on AC14 so far (due to all the bugs) so I haven't tested it anywhere else.

Anyone else have this issue? Know how it could get screwed up to begin with? Seems similar to when you have an attribute (fill or whatever) with the same name but different numbers, but I've only seen that going form one file to another not the same file on different machines.

Re: FONTS BEHAVING BADLY

kevin b — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:45:57 GMT

I should also point out that everything else in the file, notes, leaders, dimension text, zone names, etc, all of which are supposed to be arial appear correctly on both machines.

Additionally, we have run the most recent Hotfix and opened on another machine, getting a third different result.

Re: FONTS BEHAVING BADLY

vfrontiers — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:26:58 GMT

I can only tell you that making one machine a mac and the other a PC only makes matters worse!

Ugh...

Re: FONTS BEHAVING BADLY

Erika Epstein — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:17:06 GMT

vfrontiers wrote:
I can only tell you that making one machine a mac and the other a PC only makes matters worse!

Ugh...

SOOO True.
When working on projects with mixed OS the first decision is which to print from. When working on the other OS leave the font alone and make sure the anchor is correct.

Re: FONTS BEHAVING BADLY

vfrontiers — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:36:55 GMT

You just don't know how it KILLS me to have to use Arial Narrow! Really, I've bought ONE FONT that is supposed to work on both platforms. Marker Felt... First day it cross referenced beautifully... Since, all characters turn to mush...

Ugh...

Re: FONTS BEHAVING BADLY

kevin b — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:38:45 GMT

But we are all on the same platform, with the same fonts loaded, from the same source. And if it were a font issue, different OS using variants or whatever, you would think it would affect all instances, this only affects this one marker.

And we've discovered that it is even different on another machine, also with similar set-ups.