Expert: Bill DeShawn - 2/13/2004

Question
I work with AutoCAD 2000 on windows XP and I have the following problem: whenever I draw text with MText, the displayed font is different from the one assigned to the text style.Hewever, the same is not true for DText.How can I fix this?  

Answer
Devroy:
This problem is dealt with here:
http://www.cadsoft-consult.com/articleView.cfm?itemID=372
and is quoted below:
When you work in the internal mtext editor, the font may switch to Tahoma, even though that font was not specified. The problem occurs when a TrueType font is selected that does not contain ANSI codepage information. (The Richedit control within the mtext editor attempts to match the font with a font that is registered on the system with ANSI code page info, and Tahoma is the font it finds.)

To solve the problem, replace custom TrueType fonts with registered TrueType fonts, or else get a version of the custom fonts that contains ANSI codepage info.

And for most of us who don't want to wait for True-Type fonts to regenerate, there is another explanation on this web page:  http://www.cadinfo.net/editorial/TTFacad.htm

If you are using SHX fonts, or a font that is difficult to reproduce with TTF fonts, AutoCAD will substitute the font in the MTEXT editor.  Don't worry, nothing's broken.  It's just something that has to be put up with.  SHX fonts regenerate faster and are still the font of choice for many including myself.

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