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Edit the Font Mapping File
A font mapping file is a list of text fonts and their substitutes. If a text font
used in a drawing cannot be located, another text font is substituted for the
missing font using a font mapping file.
Each line in the font mapping file contains the name of a font file (with no
file extension or path) followed by a semicolon (;) and the name of the
substitute font file. The substitute file name includes a file extension such as
.ttf.
A font mapping file is an ordinary ASCII text file with a .fmp extension. The
default font mapping file is acad.fmp. You can change the font assignments
in a font mapping file using any ASCII text editor.
For example, you could use the following entry in a font map file to specify
that the timesnr.pfb font file be substituted with the times.ttf font file:
timesnr;times.ttf
The following table shows the font substitution rules used if a font file cannot
be located when a drawing is opened.
Font substitution
Fourth map-
ping order
Third mapping or-
der
Second mapping
order
First mapping or-
der
File exten-
sion
Windows substitutes
a similar font
Use font defined in
text style
Use font mapping
table
.ttf
Prompt for new
font
Use FONTALTUse font defined in
text style
Use font mapping
table
.shx
Prompt for new fontUse FONTALTUse font mapping
table
.pfb
Display Proxy Fonts
For third-party or custom SHX fonts that have no TrueType equivalent, one
of several different TrueType fonts called proxy fonts is substituted. In the
In-Place Text Editor, proxy fonts look different from the fonts they represent
to indicate that the proxy fonts are substitutions for the fonts used in the
drawing.
If you want to format characters by assigning one of these fonts, first create
a text style that uses the font and then apply that text style to the characters.
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