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Alphabet glitch in ArchiCAD 26 (student version)

Bianca Ernst
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I recently upgraded my student package to ArchiCAD 26. When I add text to my project everything is fine in the drawing and in the layout book, but once I export to pdf all the letters are jumbled. It seems each letter gets shifted up by one in alphabetical order ("A" becomes "B", "B" becomes "C", etc.)

 

Please help!

 

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Xandros
Expert

Wow, I'm amazed and have never seen anything like this! 🙈

 

First things coming to mind:

  • is this happening to all fonts? or just the one you're using? Have you tried a different font?
  • How did you save the pdf? Via CTRL+S? Or via printing with a pdf-Printer? If you did one, try the other.

Good luck finding a solution!

ArchiCAD 27 GER / Win10
Intel i9-9900K / 64GB RAM / nVidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

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Xandros
Expert

Wow, I'm amazed and have never seen anything like this! 🙈

 

First things coming to mind:

  • is this happening to all fonts? or just the one you're using? Have you tried a different font?
  • How did you save the pdf? Via CTRL+S? Or via printing with a pdf-Printer? If you did one, try the other.

Good luck finding a solution!

ArchiCAD 27 GER / Win10
Intel i9-9900K / 64GB RAM / nVidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Oh what a simple solution. Changing the font worked.

I am assuming a glitch occurred when the project was converted from version 25 to 26.

 

Problem solved when I changed the font to Ariel. But for reference:

- I used Helvetica Neue initially

- I printed via the pdf-printer

 

Thanks for the simple, yet life-saving suggestions!

I'm glad that there was a fairly easy solution to this

ArchiCAD 27 GER / Win10
Intel i9-9900K / 64GB RAM / nVidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
Lingwisyer
Guru

Just curious, if you change the font back to Helvetica Neue and try to print, does the character offset happen again?

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Indeed, Helvetica Neue doesn't seem to print properly at all.