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Jose Bonifacio
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 6:20 am    Post subject: Submit DGN with proper fonts? Reply with quote
Good morning people!
I recently submitted some cross-section/profiles plans to one of our
clients. The dgn has a cross-section drawing on top with a box on the
bottom containg all the vertical lines and text lined up in the box.
You know it is quite hard to place the text with all the different
insertion points if the text is located above or below the lines....

Anyway everything looks fine on our computers but when the client
opened his files from his workstation...all the text were out of
place.

Later we found out that he did not have the fonts that we used to make
the labels.

How do you submit a file with all the required fonts embedded (I think
that is the word) in the DGN so that when he opens it everything
should be the same as in our workstation?

TIA

Jose

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Jeffrey Malter
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 7:43 am    Post subject: Re: Submit DGN with proper fonts? Reply with quote
Hello Jose,

AFAIK one cannot 'embed' a font char set in a dgn file. The v8 Utilities >
Packager will launch a wizard to help you create a .pzip file that can
include dgn files, refs, cell libraries & resources at your option however
for fonts it will include the entire font rsc file(s) even if only one font
from the rsc is used in the Packaged dgn(s).

Futhermore the recipient's unPackage can result in his losing his own
font.rsc customizations when your rsc replaces his.

It would be best to advise the client to place the font.rsc he receives from
you in the <project>\symb\ dir & add this cfgvar to his relevant pcf file:

MS_SYMBRSRC > $(_USTN_PROJECTDATA)symb/*.rsc

So that he uses your customized font.rsc only in that particular project.

uStnV8 can also use 'system' ttf fonts that live in the OS dir tree,
previous versions could import a limited portion of a ttf into a ustn rsc
file. If your V8 dgn file uses ttf fonts these can be copied from your OS
font dir & sent directly to your client for his installation at OS-level.

HTH,
Jeffrey Malter

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Good morning people!
I recently submitted some cross-section/profiles plans to one of our
clients. The dgn has a cross-section drawing on top with a box on the
bottom containg all the vertical lines and text lined up in the box.
You know it is quite hard to place the text with all the different
insertion points if the text is located above or below the lines....

Anyway everything looks fine on our computers but when the client
opened his files from his workstation...all the text were out of
place.

Later we found out that he did not have the fonts that we used to make
the labels.

How do you submit a file with all the required fonts embedded (I think
that is the word) in the DGN so that when he opens it everything
should be the same as in our workstation?

TIA

Jose
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Jose Bonifacio
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 7:17 am    Post subject: Re: Submit DGN with proper fonts? Reply with quote
"Jeffrey Malter" <jmalter@nospam.earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<CBgSc.17682$cK.10124@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>...
Hello Jeffrey:

Thank you for the response. I forgot to mention that we are still
using Microstation SE/J not V8. I will follow your advise and also
submit the fonts.rsc file. Thank you very much.

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