Worksheet fonts

[acepernich]

This has probably been discussed already, but...

VW 11.5.1, MacOS 10.3.9. I use the tekton font in a worksheet - it displays OK on screen, but prints as Geneva. Haven't tried others yet. Can I get my font of choice to print?

[quigley]

Never had this. Have you set your worksheet font to be Tekton?

[islandmon]

GoTo>System Profile >Fonts

Check to see if Texton is listed as TrueType or Type1.

Geneva or Courier are fill-in for missing Postscript compatible fonts. In the past there were two font descriptions for each font: screen and output.

OSX is postscript requiring ps ( bezier not Bitmap ) fonts. Print to PDF>Preview and see what happens.

[Guest]

The font substitution in VW 11 and earlier was done to work around an issue with specific font types and carbon applications.

The font substitution is lifted in VW 12 since it's a cooca application.

[acepernich]

Well. here's what I've got.

My Tekton font (type 1) was living in OS9 system folder. There it was available to OS10.3.9 and/or Vectorworks 11.5.1 for general text (would display and print), but would have another font substituted for it in worksheets (printed output only - it would display OK), even though it appeared in the worksheet's Format Text menu. (Weird huh?)

I installed Tekton in OS10 via Fontbook, and now it print fine.

Thanks all for your suggestions.

[islandmon]

"VW 12 is a Cocoa application " ...sweeter words were never spoken...

[Ryan McCuaig]

quote:

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Originally posted by Katie:

[...] The font substitution is lifted in VW 12 since it's a cooca application.

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VW12 seems more to me like a Carbon app that now uses the Quartz graphics engine instead of the QuickDraw one... it hasn't really been rewritten into Cocoa, has it?