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Question Help! I seemed to have lost my favorite font. I don't know how or why. It is the "archstyl.shx" font. All of my drawings have reverted back to an ugly font. I still have the font, or at least I think I do. I have an icon that at least was the original font. My question is how do I get it back so that I can use it in my drawings? Oddly, the font name is in the dropdown menu in the text style window, but it will not let me select "apply". By the way, I am using AutoCAD 2006. Thanks!!!
Answer do a (findfile "archstyl.shx") at the command line. it will tell you if autocad can see the file on the options search path. it will say nil if it cannot find the file. if you think you have the font, make sure it is in a folder where autocad can find it (your options search path).
that font is in use in a million places, so I'm sure you can get a copy of it if you really have lost it, although I don't know who really owns it.
