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Rubia Torres
Ok, I am at a total loss on this one. I have 3 designers that say their dimension fonts and other text fonts apparently changed to Wingdings all on their own. 
They changed them to a standard Arial font, saved, closed, and opened again and the fonts were back to wingdings. If this was one person I would assume user stupidity, I mean user error. However, being that it is 3 separate people on 3 separate machine, on 3 different drawings something is definitely wrong. Does anyone have any clue on how to start tracking down this kind of problem, and has anyone else experienced this type of issue before?
We are running AC 81 R2 on W2k.
Can GS HQ please comment about this issue with Zapf Dingbats?
I seriously doubt the problem is a OSX bug.
I only experience the problem using PM9 (not any other software) and in PM3x it still seems to work fine using OS 10.3.(anything). I use 10.3.6.
I like the font as it provides a character I use for a north arrow.
This is a disconcerting issue as I either need to keep using PM3 or I have to change about every drawing I've ever done and I really don't want to do that.
I seriously doubt the problem is a OSX bug.
I only experience the problem using PM9 (not any other software) and in PM3x it still seems to work fine using OS 10.3.(anything). I use 10.3.6.
I like the font as it provides a character I use for a north arrow.
This is a disconcerting issue as I either need to keep using PM3 or I have to change about every drawing I've ever done and I really don't want to do that.
Having tried a number of things I'm still perplexed. Nothing mentioned here changes anything for me so far.
If you do a new & reset of PM or AC it'll completely drop certain fonts like Zapf Dingbats from menu. And you'd think things would be working at this point, however it isn't so.
If you:
1) Try to copy and paste from another application (all I tried seem to recognize all fonts) into AC or PM, then certain characters will drop out. Substituting an empty box or something. You'll need to finalize the text onto the sheet to see the actual result.
2) If for instance, you try to use Wingdings 3 (something in the default font menu of AC & PM), what you type in the text dialog box may or may not remain the same character or even the same font family once the text is finally entered onto the drawing. Using the Insert Symbol option is an easy way to see this.
3) If you use Edit/Search & Replace Text... in AC you might be able to change the problematic character to something else (even if this is an unfortunate option). However, if you have a lot of stuff in PM like me, you're can't fix it quickly because PM doesn't have Search & Replace Text.
4) If in PM you use Find & Select to try to isolate the problematic fonts and then try to paste them into AC as group in hopes of using Search & Replace Text you can't because it is pasted as a bitmap image (seemingly no option of changing that that I could find anyhow).
So at this point.
Is this a bug?
If not, how doses one get it to work?
If one intends to copy and paste information from a word processor or something else with mixed fonts/characters into the new V9 text editor, how will you know which fonts/characters are going to come in correctly (you need to finalize the text onto the sheet, not the editor, to see what actually comes in)?
It would be a real help and kindness if GS would Please:
1) say what you know about this situation, especially if in fact this is a bug.
2) or explain what we need to do in order to overcome this situation.
3) or say if you're looking into it, or not, or something.
If you do a new & reset of PM or AC it'll completely drop certain fonts like Zapf Dingbats from menu. And you'd think things would be working at this point, however it isn't so.
If you:
1) Try to copy and paste from another application (all I tried seem to recognize all fonts) into AC or PM, then certain characters will drop out. Substituting an empty box or something. You'll need to finalize the text onto the sheet to see the actual result.
2) If for instance, you try to use Wingdings 3 (something in the default font menu of AC & PM), what you type in the text dialog box may or may not remain the same character or even the same font family once the text is finally entered onto the drawing. Using the Insert Symbol option is an easy way to see this.
3) If you use Edit/Search & Replace Text... in AC you might be able to change the problematic character to something else (even if this is an unfortunate option). However, if you have a lot of stuff in PM like me, you're can't fix it quickly because PM doesn't have Search & Replace Text.
4) If in PM you use Find & Select to try to isolate the problematic fonts and then try to paste them into AC as group in hopes of using Search & Replace Text you can't because it is pasted as a bitmap image (seemingly no option of changing that that I could find anyhow).
So at this point.
Is this a bug?
If not, how doses one get it to work?
If one intends to copy and paste information from a word processor or something else with mixed fonts/characters into the new V9 text editor, how will you know which fonts/characters are going to come in correctly (you need to finalize the text onto the sheet, not the editor, to see what actually comes in)?
It would be a real help and kindness if GS would Please:
1) say what you know about this situation, especially if in fact this is a bug.
2) or explain what we need to do in order to overcome this situation.
3) or say if you're looking into it, or not, or something.
Still looking?
