Font to use in drawings

[MatthewMiles]

I have had an issue with drawing fonts - I have trawled through the internet and sought help via our support - but simply can't find an answer so am hoping you guys can assist.

The issue - using any other font other than "font" (default) in a drawing that can be manipulated via a pen table. I have been told that some "graphic" fonts cannot be changed either in line thickness on the pro-e menu or via pen table. Looking through a lot of the fonts available it seems none of these work. Is this right?

An option is to save out as a pdf as it seems a lot of you do, but we simply want to print out using a pen table which keeps the font we like but just takes away the thickness.

Any help greatly appreciated

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[TomU]

A subset of the fonts are embedded in the PDF. This means only the characters actually used are stored in the PDF file.

This insures that the PDF file can be viewed and printed as it looked when originally created.

http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/pdf-fonts.html

[dschenken]

Good to see. Perhaps they are following the PDF/A recommendations.

From the link "When a font cannot be embedded because of the font vendor’s settings, and someone who opens or prints a PDF does not have access to the original font ..." So be careful using fonts that are paid for. Not frequent, but possible.

I'm also curious about how this was resolved: http://communities.ptc.com/thread/42030 where TTF sometimes displayed differerently than TTF exported. http://communities.ptc.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-200394-47371/pdf_export_options_compare.JPG

[TomU]

I also tried this with a much larger (44 MB) drawing, but with virtually no text (just the title block). In this case there was very little difference in the PDF file size.

TTF - 24.9 MB

Stroke - 25.0 MB

Stroke w/Search - 25.1 MB

The amount of text on the page really makes a difference.

[MartinHanak]

Frank,

my info is related to Creo Parametric 2.0 M070 and Save a Copy (*.pdf) command, only. I did not test ProE WF5.

Martin Hanak

[Patriot_1776]

Thanks Martin! Still good to know. It's PROBABLY the same. And if not, maybe we'll eventually go to creo2.....