arlo Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 I am using Windows XP Pro English ver and AutoCAD English ver. with Japanese fonts. The problem is when I'm importing my AutoCAD files to Vectorworks, the Japanese fonts are converted to series of letters and numbers. Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Unfortunately there's currently no Unicode support in VectorWorks. Quote Link to comment
arlo Posted February 8, 2007 Author Share Posted February 8, 2007 Do you mean to say that I have to buy Japanese version of Vectorworks? Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 No, I mean to say VectorWorks doesn't support Japanese characters. It's on the wishlist though: http://techboard.nemetschek.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Number=64138 Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 Unicode support was introduced in VW version 12.5.0. You will need to have a Japanese font in order to translate the characters. Quote Link to comment
jan15 Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 Were the Japanese characters created by a system font or by an Autocad proprietary SHX font? If SHX, then VectorWorks would substitute a system font (Truetype or other font in Windows "Fonts" folder) when importing, and the substituted font might be one that doesn't include the Japanese unicode character set. So you would have to tell VectorWorks to substitute a different system font, and make sure it's a unicode font that does include the Japanese character set. It's also possible that the font used to display the Japanese characters in Autocad was a non-unicode Japanese font. That would explain why you see letters and numbers in place of the Japanese characters. I think Autocad didn't support unicode until version 2007. If that's what is happening, and if it's a problem of substituting a system font for an SHX font, then you would have to substitute a non-unicode Japanese system font for the non-unicode Japanese SHX font, and hope that it uses the same code page as the original font. I think that's supposed to be one of the advantages of Unicode ? that it standardizes code pages for all fonts. Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 Unicode support was introduced in VW version 12.5.0. Oops my mistake, sorry I should actually know that. I got confused because I remember having a problem not being able to use superscript/subscript and thinking unicode wasn't properly implemented: http://techboard.nemetschek.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Number=65668#Post65668 Quote Link to comment
arlo Posted February 9, 2007 Author Share Posted February 9, 2007 Thank you very much for the info, I'll just upgrade my VW v10 to V12.5 Quote Link to comment
arlo Posted February 9, 2007 Author Share Posted February 9, 2007 I have another question, does it mean that if get the VW v12.5, I can already import the AutoCAD files with Japanese fonts to Vectorworks without error? Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Do you have Japanese fonts on your computer? Quote Link to comment
Kornetto Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I'm using the vectorworks 2008 reader to open and print a japanese vector works version 12 file... I can read everything but the japanese characters are lost, because automatically converted in an arial font... I even have installed the correct japanese fonts in my OS, and can use them in any program. What can I do? Thanks Quote Link to comment
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