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You can use these font mapping files to enforce corporate font standards, or
to facilitate off-line printing. For example, if you share drawings with con-
sultants, you may want to use a font mapping table to specify what font
AutoCAD substitutes when it encounters a text object created with another
font. Similarly, you can edit the drawing using quicker-drawing SHX fonts
and then switch to more complex fonts for the final plot by setting up a font
mapping file that converts each SHX font to an equivalent.
The font mapping file is a plain ASCII text (FMP) file containing one font
mapping per line. Each line contains the name of a font file (with no direc-
tory name or path) followed by a semicolon (;) and the name of the substi-
tute font file. The substitute file name includes a file extension such as .ttf.
For example, you could use the following entry in a font map table to specify
that the times.ttf TrueType font file be substituted for the romanc.shx font file:
romanc.shx; times.ttf
AutoCAD comes with a default font mapping file. You can edit this file using
any ASCII text editor. You also can specify a different font mapping file in the
Options dialog box by using the
FONTMAP system variable. The following
table shows the font substitution rules used by AutoCAD when a font file
cannot be located when a drawing is opened.
To specify a font mapping file
1 From the Tools menu, choose Options. Then choose the Files tab.
2 In the list on the Files tab, double-click Text Editor, Dictionary, and Font
File Names.
3 Double-click Font Mapping File.
The acad.fmp file is specified by default.
Font substitution
File
extension
First mapping
order
Second mapping
order
Third mapping
order
Fourth mapping
order
.ttf Use font mapping
table
Use font defined in
text style
Windows substitutes
a similar font
.shx Use font mapping
table
Use font defined in
text style
Use FONTALT Prompt for new
font
.pfb Use font mapping
table
Use FONTALT Prompt for new font