topic Re: Font Appearance in Documentation

Font Appearance

Karl Griffith — Fri, 19 May 2023 13:52:25 GMT

I need to use Romans font to meet client requirements. I can not get it to publish with black letters, as I can with Arial. Starting with an Arial font, and changing only the font to Romans results in a grayed out text when published. Even changing the pen to a heavier pen does make much difference. Any thoughts?

Re: Font Appearance

Gerald Hoffman — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 02:29:57 GMT

Does it make any difference if you make it 'Bold"?

Re: Font Appearance

Karl Griffith — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 16:00:57 GMT

No, it looks just the same.

A little research shows even Revit users have this problem - apparently something due to the nature of the font. So I might need to find a substitute which I have not yet found.

Re: Font Appearance

Eduardo Rolon — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 16:33:51 GMT

ROMANS is the TTF version of an old 1980's AutoCAD font created for use in Pen Plotters. It is my understanding that you wil not find a bold version since the way to make it bold was to use a "thicker" technical pen when you sent the DWG to the plotter.
This font should not be a standard for any office.

Re: Font Appearance

Karl Griffith — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 18:26:05 GMT

I agree, but it is the standard for the State of New York Office of General Services

Re: Font Appearance

Eduardo Rolon — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 21:07:49 GMT

Agree, they are using standards that is based on one particular software package which is "prohibited" under government rules. But this is so absurd that I think you will not be able to convince them that they are wrong on having that "font" as a standard.

RomanD is the "Bold" version of RomanS. Try to use it and see if they can detect the difference.

Re: Font Appearance

vistasp — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 09:49:16 GMT

ejrolon wrote:
RomanD is the "Bold" version of RomanS.

I'd completely forgotten about those bad old days.