Font error in AC9

[Anonymous]

Is anyone else's AC9 showing certain fonts incorrectly ?
Fonts such as USA Black, Playwright, Avalon & Technical (that appear correctly in AC 8.1) are showing up as completely illegible.
When you click on them to edit, the text editing window shows them back in their correct form, but they revert back to being incomprehensible when you click out... Weird
I opened a new blank project and tested out the fonts to make sure it isn't just a "Started in 8.1, worked on in 9.0" kind of bug, and the problem occurs in a new 9.0 job also...

[Anonymous]

Ok, a few more questions:

1. Does PM exhibit the same behavior?
2. Do other fonts appear correctly?
3. Do the same fonts appear correctly in other files in AC 9?
4. What is the point size?

I'll check out your module tomorrow when I get to the office.

[Anonymous]

Eric wrote:
1. Does PM exhibit the same behavior?
2. Do other fonts appear correctly?
3. Do the same fonts appear correctly in other files in AC 9?
4. What is the point size?

1. Yes, I noticed the other day that PM9 does do the same thing...
2. There are a stack of fonts that exhibit this behaviour, too numerous to mention...
3. Nup, these fonts appear incorrectly in all files, new or old, regardless of whether the file was created in 8.1, 9 or other...
4. Point size(=font size in mm ) Font display not affected by any increase/decrease in font size...

[Anonymous]

Justin,

The fonts you had mentioned appear to be Corel "equivalent" fonts. Could there be a connection and/or conflict with this family of fonts?

Mike

[Anonymous]

I looked at the file you attached and of course I don't have that font on my system so I couldn't find out anything further.

Sorry.

[Anonymous]

OK, so I expanded the list of fonts from just Playwright...
There's now 119 of them...
Hmm...

[Anonymous]

Archi-blokes...
Crisis over ! Our local re-seller just popped in & managed to solve the font issue.
Via Regional Settings in the Control Panel, he's removed the option for languages other than English.
It would appear that in Archicad 9, text was defaulted to a different region, even though it shows in the text settings that 'Western' format is selected. So basically, all fonts with regional settings other than Western were defaulting to another region. The 'garbled' text I described was actually another language, please excuse my ignorance !
So thanks all very much for your help to date, but the solution appears to have been found !

[Anonymous]

jp_walford wrote:
Still nup,
No parentheses, have been on Win from day dot, everything's been a standard install & nothing is any different from when using 8.1...
It's just real weird that it appears correctly when using the text editing tool, then reverts to garbage when you click out...
Anyway, I've been PM'd by an Archidude, so hopefully the cavalry has arrived !

i just ran the dowload on you attached and it ran perfectly. whether i was editing the text or not.

i can't think of what would cause this to act up. Sorry i can't help you.