Do you still use TXT font in your drawings?

A Harris, post: 323547, member: 81 wrote: I've prefer ROMANS at 1.125 wide on my cad drawings.

Some fonts will not make the transfer between early versions and later versions of cad.

Comic Sans and Frugal Sans or two other favorites.

B-)

I use ROMANS at 1.299 wide and 10d56' oblique. The values refer to the AR PS numbers of the partners of Design Drafting, Surveying and Mapping, LLC.

DDSM:gammon::beer::gammon:

I always used Simplex because once plotted, you couldn't really distinguish it from RomanS anyway. Plus it was a smaller file size and faster loading. These days though, that's probably not as relevant.

Norman Oklahoma, post: 323643, member: 9981 wrote: Hey, 1985 called, they want their font back.

Thanks for the chuckle-o'-the-day, Mark. Hilarious. Wish I had swallowed that swig of coffee BEFORE I read your remark....:pinch:

When I see TXT font on a survey, it makes me look at the date. If it's recent..it just makes me shake my head..there are SO MANY other viable choices.

Arial and Romans when I have to follow company CAD standards

Baskerville and Gill Sans when the decision is mine 😉

I like Garamond for title blocks. Mostly we use simplex and triplex.

When I see TXT font on a survey, it makes me look at the date. If it's recent..it just makes me shake my head..there are SO MANY other viable choices.

reason why I asked, because just last month, I got a FINAL survey plan from another survey company that still uses TXT font. It was a bathymetry survey plan with the depth readings all printed in TXT font. It would be OK for me if it was a draft plan or advanced copy plan, but even the title block used TXT font.
I asked the office approximately how much would such a survey cost & other guys told me in the range ~$15,000-$20,000,
Go figure, for that amount of work, a simple --->Select All---->Style---->Arial or Arial Narrow would have made the plan worthy of the price the client paid for it.

Francis Holmes, post: 323697, member: 10014 wrote: ..... would have made the plan worthy of the price the client paid for it.

Of course it takes much more than a pretty font to make a survey worth $20k but one does wonder about the general technical competence of someone still using TXT font.

I use a variaty of fonts but one issue that I have ran into is with TT fonts, sometime when I print or export a PDF, the font comes out a bunch of dots or sometime random symbols. Especially the Aerial. Haven't researched why, just use a different font. Maybe someone has a solution.

Scotland, post: 323731, member: 559 wrote: I use a variaty of fonts but one issue that I have ran into is with TT fonts, sometime when I print or export a PDF, the font comes out a bunch of dots or sometime random symbols. Especially the Aerial. Haven't researched why, just use a different font. Maybe someone has a solution.

If your PDF printer has an option to embed fonts - use that.

BGraham, post: 323734, member: 1603 wrote: If your PDF printer has an option to embed fonts - use that.

Thanks... I will look into it.

Randy Rain, post: 323642, member: 35 wrote: Robert I hate to even ask but have you checked the textfill sysvar it should be set to 1

Thanks Randy, that is exactly what it was, I have been using autocad so long I don't even remember if they were numbered, I do remember we had to edit the "Batch" file to make it work and I have never known you could do text that way. Thanks for the help.

Wendell, post: 323645, member: 1 wrote: I always used Simplex because once plotted, you couldn't really distinguish it from RomanS anyway. Plus it was a smaller file size and faster loading. These days though, that's probably not as relevant.

That is so true I had forgotten how bloated TT Fonts made the old acad files. If was a difficult day the first time we realized our file size had increased past 1.44mb and wouldn't fit on a 3.5" disk. Zipping the files worked for awhile then Zip Drives but we always tried to keep the size down as memory and disk space was precious in the "Old Days"