J. Miller Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 I just updated to 12.5. Look like things are working BUT The text boxes now show the tab stops as little boxes. I have tried different fonts and the ALL seem to do that. Hopefully this is a quick fix or I have an awful lot of retyping to do Dell P4 Win XP Pro. Jeff Miller Quote Link to comment
Mat Caird Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 I have noticed this too Quote Link to comment
JHEarcht Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 VW12.5 on Windows XP Me too. Formatted text blocks created in VW11, imported to VW12. In VW12.5 tabs display as boxes. Haven't tried to print yet. Quote Link to comment
Tomato_Trucker Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 Looks like tabs (period) show as boxes....and print as well. Ouch! Quote Link to comment
jbrhwy Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 Checked a number of my files & tab markers show correctly, is this a Windows problem? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Bruce Ferguson Posted September 15, 2006 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 15, 2006 This is only a problem on Windows. It will be addressed for the next release of VW. For now, there is a good work around, if you have 230 MB of free space on your hard drive. Go to the Regional and Language Options control panel. On the Languages pane, turn on the "Install files for East Asian language" checkbox. Then click on OK. You will have a few more fonts in your fonts menu, but the boxes will go away for every font except for a few Chinese fonts (and you don't have those fonts anyway until you turn this on). Once a new VW comes out without this problem, you can turn this off, and Windows will remove these files, and your font menu will be back to how it is presently. Quote Link to comment
Itchy Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 By using your method bruce it looks like it has done the job, but when i export my drawing to PDF to print it the problem is still there. Quote Link to comment
P Retondo Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 By using your method bruce it looks like it has done the job, but when i export my drawing to PDF to print it the problem is still there. How are you creating the pdf? Using Acrobat Pro 7.0 I don't have the boxes. I use the following setup: print as Postscript, and uncheck "Do not send fonts to Adobe PDF" in the printer properties options. Using the new Export PDF command, I do get the boxes. Quote Link to comment
Itchy Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 Im using the Export PDF command Quote Link to comment
gScott Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 i hope this gets patched fast because i've just printed a whole tender set with tabbed notes + keys that is fairly illegible on account of little black circles in ROTIS font + hollow black squares in any truetype font. no time to redo the text without tabs..... it's ridiculous that screw-ups like this get through the testing phases! very not happy... Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 Gideon, Applying Bruce's fix will fix the problem both on the screen and on print outs. Have you tried his workaround? Quote Link to comment
The Hamma Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Katie, The boxes still appear when using PDF export, but not when printing to a PDF printer, after the workaround David Quote Link to comment
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