sicily80 Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 We use Century Gothic (bold) as a font for our title page, and after I updated to 12.5 the font plots out more bold than before. Its very noticeable on the sheet and looks quite awkward actually, however it looks the same on the screen. Any reason for that? Any fix? We didn't have that problem with any previous updates. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
cbaarch Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 There are 2 ways to select Bold the first one is how the font is designed so you select the TTF that says bold - with Regular selected in VW the second is to use Century Gothic and change the VW setting to Bold. the latter maybe be "bold" enough. Quote Link to comment
sicily80 Posted September 14, 2006 Author Share Posted September 14, 2006 hi cbaarh, the only options I have is the latter option where its that normal Century Gothic with VW setting to Bold. Again the plotting of the font was fine in 12, and all of a sudden got extra Bold with the update. I've been looking around to see if there are settings in 12.5 to make it a normal Bold, but have not been successful. It's a bit annoying when things look different after an update, and no changes have been made to a file... Quote Link to comment
jbrhwy Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 It would make it much easier if everyone who posted would add a signature that included computer make & model, operating system version & what Vectorworks products they have. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 Sicily, Did you recently update your printer driver? What printer make/model/driver version are you using? What OS? Quote Link to comment
sicily80 Posted September 20, 2006 Author Share Posted September 20, 2006 Hi Katie, Our plotter is HP designjet 800 ps and we're running on Mac OS 10.4.3. I'll see if there's an updated driver. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
sicily80 Posted September 20, 2006 Author Share Posted September 20, 2006 Hi Katie, I found a driver update, installed it, and had the same poor results with 12.5 and HP 800. I pulled the same file to another computer that has 12.0, plotted it out on the same plotter and it looked fine. I do think there's a compatibility issue with 12.5 and HP 800 and hope there's a fix for it soon. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 UPdate the OS to 10.4.7 and run disk utility. You may need to run the Printer Repair utility in the print center to ensure the driver is fully updated. Then, run Disk Utility to verify and repair disk permissions. Quote Link to comment
sicily80 Posted September 21, 2006 Author Share Posted September 21, 2006 I've updated the OS to 10.4.7, ran verify and repair permissions...I can not find where the printer repair utility is exactly though the driver was updated. Is there anything else in the update that can trigger this? Should I go just back to 12.0? Thanks! Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Does this happen in all your drawings, or just this file? (A good way to test this is to create a new, blank document, enter text and then print it.) Quote Link to comment
sicily80 Posted September 21, 2006 Author Share Posted September 21, 2006 It's happened on two different files I've worked on since the upgrade, and I just tried it on a blank file (with the same results) so I'm assuming it'll happen on all files. I'd be happy to scan in the plots from 12.0 and 12.5 and email it to you for you to see. Please let me know where to send it to. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
sicily80 Posted September 21, 2006 Author Share Posted September 21, 2006 Nevermind, I know what you email is. I'll send it along...thanks! Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Send the file to tech@nemetschek.net - I'm not the best person to take the time to look into the situation right now. Quote Link to comment
sicily80 Posted September 22, 2006 Author Share Posted September 22, 2006 Juan at tech support figured out an answer. Apparently the quartz imaging option was checked in VW Prefs - Display and they somehow made things thicker... Thanks for all your help. Quote Link to comment
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