Change PDF export default Truetype font

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March 19, 2025
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Hi,

We are using "Isofont.ndx" in our drawings. But we need to export them to PDF with Truetype font. I can chose the option to force it to use Truetype font but the default font is "Arial" and it is too wide.

Can anyone help how to change this default setting to another type of narrower font?

Thanks

2D Drawing

Catalina

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SC_TK

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12-Amethyst

Thanks Catalina,

See the two screenshots below. First one is the screenshot from Creo directly and 2nd is the screenshot for the PDF was created using the " Using True Type Font" option. It can be seen the string gets a lot wider than it was in Creo. When the filename gets longer, it will encroach into the other cell of the table.

In Creo the default font is "Isofont.ndx", but in PDF it was converted to "Arial". That is why it is a lot wider. I believe it is the default setting in Creo.

I tried to find a solution to change the default True Type font used in Creo to "ArialLN". That is a narrower font, but I don't know where to start.

Thanks

R

Radovan_DT

14-Alexandrite

Several people I know worked on this and the resume was to give up. Vector fonts are not working properly in creo and you want to elimitate the thing that your drawing looks different on paper than on your monitor. In case I want some CNC laser text done I use them with these export settings or I just do 0,01mm extrude a text on a part. We switched to true type. The advise from official creo distributor in our country was to install ISOCP fonts, we are using ISOCPEUR as default now. It looks technical and similar size like ndx font and we export ttf to ttf.