Anyone able to offer help with this?
We are Mac based A9 users. We constantly have to export layout via Plotmaker in DWG format, usually to AutoCAD users.
When you now publish in DWG format, you are required to locate an .SHX font (always asking for the directory to 'simplex.shx')
We have a full library of AutoCAD fonts that we have save on a server. We have tried to give this as the directory for font types, but they or the directory appears to be unrecognised. We do not even know if this is the correct action to take. When we then re-open the DWG or any other DWG we are prompted for a similar action, to locate font files used with the drawing. Even when we do give the directories of the fonts, the drawing opens and either defaults all the font styles to a font type that resembles 'courier' or replaces the font characters with question marks (?????). The text is also randomly formatted and displaced from original positioning on the drawing.
We have tried numerous translator settings, but are now desperate to try and resolve this. We need to have some guarantee that recipients who are opening our saved DWG's are reading exactly what we see on the drawing.
If anyone has solutions, we will sing your praises indefinately!!!
