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490 | Chapter 19 Notes and Labels
The Multiline Text Editor can display only fonts that are recognized by
Windows. Because AutoCAD SHX fonts are not recognized by Windows,
AutoCAD supplies a TrueType equivalent in the Multiline Text Editor when
you select an SHX or any other non-TrueType font for editing.
See Also
“Set Text Height” on page 494
To assign a TrueType font to a text style
1 From the Format menu, click Text Style.
2 In the Text Style dialog box under Style Name, click New.
3 In the New Text Style dialog box, enter a style name for the new text style
and click OK.
4 Under Font Name, choose a TrueType font from the list. TrueType fonts
display a TrueType icon in front of their names.
5 To see the effects on different characters, enter a text string in the sample
text box that is located to the left of the Preview button, and then click
Preview.
6 To update text of the current style in the drawing, click Apply.
7 Click Close.
Styles toolbar
Command line
STYLE
Use Unicode and Big Fonts
AutoCAD supports the Unicode character-encoding standard. A Unicode
font can contain 65,535 characters, with shapes for many languages.
Unicode fonts contain many more characters than are defined in your sys-
tem; therefore, to use a character not directly available from the keyboard,
you can enter the escape sequence \U+nnnn, where nnnn represents the Uni-
code hexadecimal value for the character. All AutoCAD SHX shape fonts are
now Unicode fonts.
The text files for some alphabets, such as Kanji, contain thousands of non-
ASCII characters. To accommodate such text, AutoCAD supports a special
type of shape definition known as a Big Font file. You can set a style to use
both regular and Big Font files.