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

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SC_TK

Author

12-Amethyst

Thanks Radovan_DT,

Our situation is different. We are in a highly regulated industry. Documentation requirement is very strict. We often receive "repeat" projects. Physically they are the same, but drawings have to be changed due to some wording changing. It is very time consuming to change a few hundreds something thousands drawings one by one, We would like to export all drawings to PDF format and do a batch search and replace using a Python script. It works really well except this font issue.

Our creo default font is "isofont.ndx". If we simply export it to PDF, all characters are not editable. We had to force the export option to use True Type fonts. But the part number gets too wide and cause the issue.