Fabrice Spelta Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Finally found a font that looks a lot like my own hand draughting font. It is Draft Punk Ltd, purchased from MyFonts.com. It displays perfectly fine but does not print at all; it is just missing. Not on any of the three printers that i tried does it work. Nor through Adobe PDF or a freeware pdf generator, nor does printing through rastrising output (SLOW) work; all these seem to get stuck in some never-ending loop. Other software, like CS6 Design series (illustrator and Photoshop) or Libreoffice all display and print the font fine in any shape of form. It appears to be solely VW that has an issue here, or is there something wrong with this font? Anybody else had any problems related to specific fonts? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted February 23, 2016 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 23, 2016 What type of font is it? There are some that we do not support directly: http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/618/Fonts Are you printing to a PDF writer, or using File > Export > Export PDF and attempting to use that rasterize text option? Quote Link to comment
Fabrice Spelta Posted February 23, 2016 Author Share Posted February 23, 2016 The owner of the font has come back to me and suggested un-installing both the OTF and TTF versions of the font (I had installed both) and re-installing ONLY the TTF. This has worked for me. I guess the OTF font throws the other one off somehow..? Thank you for your prompt reply. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted February 23, 2016 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 23, 2016 Yes. If you have both, the OS will usually default to the last one that was installed. Our TrueType (TTF) support is much better than our support for OpenType (OTF) so that result does not surprise me. Glad you got it working! Quote Link to comment
Art V Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Jim, OpenType fonts can be TTF or OTF, the former being TrueType coded and the later PostScript coded. Based on the link you provided above it seems OTF OpenType fonts are still(?) not properly supported like TTF OpenType fonts? If so, are there plans to improve the OTF OpenType fonts support in the foreseeable future? Quote Link to comment
Art V Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 Bump Has the OTF Opentype support of Vectorworks been improved or is it still the same as for 2016? Quote Link to comment
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