font conversion when publishing from Plotmaker to DWG

[Anonymous]

I am trying to publish DWGs from plotmaker. Everything works fine except for the fonts. When I open the published DWG in Volo View or AutoCAD the font ArchiTEXT Western has been converted to a stick font that I assume is the default AutoCAD font. I'd like the fonts to show up in the DWG as they were in ArchiCAD. How can I do this?

I did read the forum thread started last year by afpina and Rick Tompson regarding font conversion for DWGs. I didn't understand most of it.

I'd like to know if I can publish a DWG from Plotmaker that shows the ArchiTEXT Western font (or a similar drafting font) as it shows up in Plotmaker? If it is possible, how can I do it?

Thank you,
John

[Anonymous]

This is another of the translator settings that I tried.

[Anonymous]

and here is yet another setting I tried.
What setting do you use? Is there somewhere that I could download a translator that is set up for this type of conversion?
Thank you,
John

[Djordje]

Your ArchiTXT gets converted to TXT.SHX; or maybe TXT.TTF, you should check in AutoCAD (click on the text in AutoCAD, right click, Properties, it will tell you the STYLE used). That means that AutoCAD is not using the ArchiTXT True Type font. Now, you can try to make a blank AutoCAD (BTW, which AutoCAD?) drawing as a template and set up an AutoCAD style that uses ArchiTXT as a font.

This still does not and will not solve the problem of sending the drawing to others, especially if they don't have the same True Type font.

[Anonymous]

Djordje wrote:
Now, you can try to make a blank AutoCAD (BTW, which AutoCAD?) drawing as a template and set up an AutoCAD style that uses ArchiTXT as a font.

This still does not and will not solve the problem of sending the drawing to others, especially if they don't have the same True Type font.

I almost always convert to TTF that are very common such as Arial, Times New Roman, Comic Sans...

If you don't know anything about AutoCAD, it can be a little daunting attempting a conversion of this nature. Remember that the translator works by translating fonts to ACAD styles. Open ACAD (cringe emoticon missing) ...go to Format > Text Style. It opens the attached dialoge box. In there, you can create a new text style with an appropriate font. You then use that style (not font) in your translator settings.

HTH

[Anonymous]

..oh...I almost forgot...make the new style in your DWG template that you will be using for translation...Are you using a DWG template for your conversions?