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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Chapter 1 - Find the Information You Need
- Part 1 - The User Interface
- Part 2 - Start, Organize, and Save a Drawing
- Part 3 - Control the Drawing Views
- Part 4 - Create and Modify Objects
- Chapter 14 - Control the Properties of Objects
- Chapter 15 - Use Precision Tools
- Chapter 16 - Draw Geometric Objects
- Chapter 17 - Change Existing Objects
- Part 5 - Hatches, Notes, and Dimensions
- Chapter 18 - Hatches, Fills, and Wipeouts
- Chapter 19 - Notes and Labels
- Chapter 20 - Dimensions and Tolerances
- Part 6 - Create Layouts and Plot Drawings
- Chapter 21 - Create Layouts
- Chapter 22 - Plot Drawings
- Part 7 - Share Data Between Drawings and Applications
- Chapter 23 - Reference Other Drawing Files (Xrefs)
- Chapter 24 - Link and Embed Data (OLE)
- Chapter 25 - Work with Data in Other Formats
- Chapter 26 - Access External Databases
- Overview of Using AutoCAD with External Databases
- Access a Database from Within AutoCAD
- Link Database Records to Graphical Objects
- Use Labels to Display Database Information in the Drawing
- Use Queries to Filter Database Information
- Share Link and Label Templates and Queries with Other Users
- Work with Links in Files from Earlier Releases
- Part 8 - Work with Other People and Organizations
- Chapter 27 - Protect and Sign Drawings
- Chapter 28 - Use the Internet to Share Drawings
- Chapter 29 - Insert and View Markups
- Chapter 30 - Publish Drawing Sets
- Part 9 - Create Realistic Images and Graphics
- Glossary
- Index
492 | Chapter 19 Notes and Labels
6 To update text of the current style in the drawing, click Apply.
7 Click Close.
Styles toolbar
Command line
STYLE
Substitute Fonts
AutoCAD accommodates a font that is not currently on your system by sub-
stituting another font.
Specify an Alternative Font
If your drawing specifies a font that is not currently on your system,
AutoCAD automatically substitutes the font designated as your alternative
font. By default, AutoCAD uses the simplex.shx file. If you want to specify a
different font, enter the alternative font file name by changing the
FONTALT
system variable. If you use a text style that uses a Big Font, you can map it to
another font using the
FONTALT system variable. This system variable uses a
default font file pair of txt.shx, bigfont.shx. For more information, see Using
Unicode and Big Fonts.
In previous releases of AutoCAD, you could display PostScript fonts in the
drawing. Because AutoCAD Release 14, AutoCAD LT 97, and later releases
cannot display PostScript fonts, Autodesk has supplied TrueType font equiv-
alents. These PostScript fonts are mapped to the equivalent TrueType fonts in
a font mapping file supplied by AutoCAD.
Display Proxy Fonts
For third-party or custom SHX fonts that have no TrueType equivalent,
AutoCAD substitutes one of several different TrueType fonts called proxy
fonts. In the Multiline Text Editor dialog box, proxy fonts have a different
appearance from the fonts they represent to indicate that they are substitu-
tions for the fonts used in the drawing.
Custom SHX fonts do not appear in the list on the Character tab in the
Multiline Text Editor dialog box. 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.
Use Font Mapping Files
Sometimes you might want to ensure that your drawing uses only certain
fonts, or perhaps you might want to convert the fonts you used to other
fonts. You can use any text editor to create font mapping tables for both of
these purposes.