ROMANS.SHX is a normal text font file, not a shape file

Hi everone:
My question is: how to change via LISP the fonts that is not found in the
font path, I have a dwg with a font name "Equipment Plan1.shx" if I select
the "Romans.shx" I got the error "ROMANS.SHX IS A NORMAL TEXT FONT FILE, NOT
A SHAPE FILE."

If you have a lisp that take care the missing font at the begining of the
DWG load?

any will be apreciate... thank in advance..

HDC

 

That is because "Equipment Plan1.shx" is a shape file, not a font file.

Ask the author of the drawing for the shape file.

Better yet, ask him to use eTransmit when sending you drawings. This
way, all required files will be included.

 

Thank you R.K. McSwain, for your respond.
I know that etransmit will take care that problem, but what i need is to
substitute "Equipment Plan1.shx" or any other font not founded when the dwg
is open, by romans.shx via LISP.

thank you again.

HDC

 

Again.... Equpment Plan1.shx is NOT a font....

But, for more info... look up fontmap in help / google... or search for
AutoCad FMP file.

Casey

 

I had a drawing sent to me using eTransmit the other day. The matter of
copyrighted fonts has been raised before and it had a good laugh to read
one of the files that came with the drawing. This is what it contained
regarding fonts:

..SHX fonts

Please copy these fonts to the AutoCAD Fonts directory and check with
the font manufacturer about distribution rights. Fonts supplied with
AutoCAD are freely distributable.

..TTF fonts

TTF fonts must be registered with the Operating System. To register,
copy these files to the system fonts folder or use the fonts application
in the Control Panel. Check with the font manufacturer about
distribution rights. Fonts supplied with AutoCAD are freely
distributable.

Now a show of hands from all those who have actually read this file
generated by eTransmit before the files gathered by eTransmit were sent?

When I called the company (yes, a large national construction company)
that provided the fonts and asked if they realised that the fonts they
provided were actually copyrighted and not to be distributed without
purchasing a license. They said they had never realised that they were
required to check this. As far as they were concerned, anything that
eTransmit bundled was OK as "Autodesk must have checked it". Now this is
a large shopping centre project that has been going on for the past 3
years and has 18 months of construction to go. Needless to say that
these fonts have been distributed to the dozens of contractors engaged
on the project.

I suppose Autodesk consider they have done what they can by including
this information in a TXT file, however there is nothing that requires
the person using eTransmit to check this file.

So, by all means ask for the missing shape file, however those sending
it need to check and make sure that it can be legally provided.
eTransmit does NOT check to see if the files it gathers can be legally
sent.

 

Again, the SHX file in question is a SHAPE file, not a FONT file.

 

You can't substitute a FONT file for a SHAPE file. (As your original
error message stated).

When shape files are missing, you will be prompted.

 

".shp" files can be either "Fonts" or "Shapes". In this case the shp in
question must be a "Shape" file.

 

That is exactly what I wrote in the post to which you are responding.

<quote>
"That is because "Equipment Plan1.shx" is a shape file, not a font file."
</quote>

 

Not to belittle but you responded that it was a shape file and not a font
file; however, I didn't feel that this explained that a shp/shx file could
be either one as it didn't appear that the original poster knew the
difference.

 

You can't make the replacement because it is a different kind of animal.

A shape file is typically used to define graphic symbols, which are used somewhat like blocks. So even if you could force the substitution, you wouldn't want to, because you would be losing graphical content in the drawing. You need to get the actual shape file from the person who created the drawing.

I often see site plans in which surveyors use shapes to portray trees, benchmarks, and other information, such that the plan is near worthless without having the shape file. I would guess that a file named "Equipment Plan1.shx" likewise contains information which you need if you're going to work on that drawing file.