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#471 by atkoc
Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:58 am
Hi All,

There are two colleagues who're using Cad in the company.
If the one is using multiline text then the other can't see the text only strange characters. If he clicks on it then a window appears showing the text and then I can see the font type:

Lucia Sans Unicode

The text with other fonts he can see it in the right way.
The other coleague has no problem with any text.

Where or what can I change in his program to make him able to see the text without clicking on it.

Thanks,
#473 by caddit
Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:41 am
hi atkoc,


You mean "Lucida Sans Unicode", with a "d" right? We haven't seen any problems with this font in progeCAD. Right away there are a few things you can check:

1) Do both systems actually have Lucida Sans Unicode installed? If AutoCAD or progeCAD can't find a font for a drawing, it will attempt a substitution. Since Lucida Sans Unicode uses a two-byte encoding, rendering the same text with a simpler font on another system might lead to problems.
2) Similar to previous, but check that Lucida Sans Unicode is actually within the FONT PATH of both CAD systems (in progeCAD menu: Tools->Options->Paths/Files->"Fonts"). Like the system path variable this is a semicolon delimitated list of directories progeCAD searches for its font. AutoCAD is similar.
3) Make sure the Lucida Sans Unicode font file is actually the same on both systems, not corrupted somehow. Check file size and load Lucida Sans Unicode in the character map application to check it on both systems (from DOS prompt type the "charmap" command and select Lucida Sans Unicode from the drop-down)

Some more questions:
1) What kind of "Cad" do you mean? progeCAD? AutoCAD? Something else? Are they both using the same version or is one much older?
2) What operating system are both users running?
3) What character map/codepage are both users running?