Adding User Defined Fonts

 

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The user can add Windows True Type fonts, or AutoCAD compatible SHX fonts to the Land F/X database of fonts. When adding a font to the database, you will need to use Windows Explorer (or other navigation method) to locate the font file. True Type fonts will need to have already been installed into Windows, and are usually located in the WINDOWS/Fonts folder. The SHX fonts might be an AutoCAD supplied font (look at Tools/Options/Files/Support Files Search Path for the location of AutoCAD fonts), or they might be a user supplied font in a location of your choosing.

 

Step 1:

If installing a TrueType font, you first need to copy the font to a location other than the Windows Fonts folder. From the Fonts Control Panel, you can hold down the Ctrl key while dragging the font to the Windows Desktop.

 

Step 2:

Open the Land F/X Data Manager and select the Fonts tab.

 

Land F/X Data Manager with the “Fonts” tab selected.

 

Now select the New button at the bottom of the dialog box. Navigate to the location of the font you wish to add. For this example, we will install a SHX font, Architxt.shx.

 

When you highlight the font you are adding, an Edit Font dialog box will appear.

 

Edit Font dialog box when adding a font. The font in question is Architxt.shx.

 

You will need to enter a four letter code that is not used by any other Land F/X font. In this example let’s enter ARCH. You can also change the name of the font to be less cryptic. In this case name the font Architect Text. If this were a Monospace type font, you would click on the box to the right.

 

Font edited for Code and a less cryptic name.

 

When you select OK, the font will be copied to LandFX/Fonts folder, it will be added to the Land F/X database, a slide of text samples of the font will be shot for the font preview, and the font will be available for use from the Land F/X Font Select function.

 

Land F/X Font Manager from the Font Select function, with the new font added, along with a preview sample of the font.

 

The font is now ready to be used in drawing with the Font Select function, or used to replace some of the Land F/X default font styles, see Preferences.