Programatically setting font again to arial has no effect Command: (TESTARIALTUR)įont is currently Arial.ttf and xdata shows same It's the xdata font name that is displayed on the screen in the font dialog box. Notice the last line after resetting font to Arial the font name does not match the xdata font name. Here is a clip of the output that shows the font name (dxf 3) next to the xdata (dxf -3) each setup of the way. (princ ' Setting font to Arial again.WTF?')(terpri) (princ ' Setting to different font')(terpri) (princ ' Programatically setting font again to arial has no effect')(terpri) (princ (assoc 3 (entget e )))(princ (assoc -3 (entget e (list 'ACAD')))) (princ ' Font is currently Arial.ttf and xdata shows same')(terpri)

I started with a completely clean empty drawing with one style named 'Standard' and manually changed the font to Arial and then ran the following test: (defun testArialTur () I've done a pretty airtight test just to prove the problem:

And preferably, create the PDF file Acrobat's PDFMaker.Not a chance. What you need to do is recreate the PDF file from the original Word document, making sure that the Ayuthaya font is installed or changing all the text formatted in that font to some font that you indeed have installed. This PDF file does not appear to have been created by Acrobat (in conjunction with Word) and appears to have been modified in some way after PDF file creation, possibly in a way that damaged the file (if it wasn't already defective). To make matters worse, whatever created this PDF file not only did not embed this Ayuthaya font, but also didn't properly create the internal font mapping tables such that a substitute font could be used.Īlthough the file's Document Properties claim that this PDF file came from Microsoft Word, the Title is blank, the PDF Producer is blank, and even more suspiciously, the Modified date is not the same as the Created date. The primary problem is that contrary to what you thought, the document was not formatted in Arial, but rather, in a font by the name of Ayuthaya. Got the PDF file you posted and examined it.

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