Importing Fonts - Myriad

[kyle88]

I've done this before in pro with no problem.

Find a font download it, install it normally into windows, then make sure in your options that it's aimed at the windows/fonts directory.

Our industrial designers here want to use Myriad. So I downloaded it and went through the process. It shows up on word, excel, etc, but not in Pro.

Anybody have any ideas?

 

[otman73]

You can try this
close PROE, put a copy of the font file directly into your PROE font folder and reopen PROE. Mine is in
C:\ptc\proe4\text\fonts

I had to do this because I discover that my config.pro using windows font option was crashing my proe whenever I open dwg file or exporting a file.

Edited by: otman73

 

[design-engine]

The problem with using true type fonts in Pro/ENGINEER ... esp if your working with industrial designers and more appropriately graphic designers.... You have to kern each letter that is placed. Learning to properly space and kern a font takes time, patience, and an experienced eye. To an ME or design engineer we don't hardly notice the minute microns off a letter is when placed against another letter. The degreed graphic designers (if they are good) will notice that kind of stuff and call you out on it.

The solution is to have the graphic designers (usually not ID'ers) export from Illustrator as 'outlines' then export a dxf, pdf for you import into Pro/ENGINEER.

About Kerning....

[url]http://www.fonts.com/aboutfonts/articles/fyti/spacingkerning 2.htm[/url]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning
Edited by: design-engine

 

[kyle88]

I gave it a shot, but no dice. Thanks for the suggestion though.

I'm thinking there are only certain fonts that Pro can use... Not sure what dictates what is good from what is bad. I can use Arial and all the other "standard" fonts... just not the one I need (of course).

Anybody else or have another suggestion?
Did I stump the masses?

 

[design-engine]

dice?What exactly did you try. You tried your ID'er and they said no dice?Sometimes you have to trick them into doing stuff for you.

Or do you mean you were unsuccessful in exporting as outlines?

or were you unsuccessful in importing your outlines into Pro/ENGINEER?

 

[kyle88]

Thanks Bart,
I did have them export it from Illustrator and pulled it in. I was looking for: more flexibility in changing height, not having a billion dimensions attached to it, etc without having to re re-import them and change the scale if (by if I mean when) there are changes. I am actually just using 1 2 3 4 from the font. There are no complete words. Easy enough to do 4 times, but I'm anticipating more verbiage to come.

The problem with using true type fonts in Pro/ENGINEER ... esp if your working with industrial designers and more appropriately graphic designers.... You have to kern each letter that is placed. Learning to properly space and kern a font takes time, patience, and an experienced eye. To an ME or design engineer we don't hardly notice the minute microns off a letter is when placed against another letter. The degreed graphic designers (if they are good) will notice that kind of stuff and call you out on it.



The solution is to have the graphic designers (usually not ID'ers) export from Illustrator as 'outlines' then export a dxf, pdf for you import into Pro/ENGINEER.



About Kerning....



[url]http://www.fonts.com/aboutfonts/articles/fyti/spacingkerning 2.htm[/url]



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning

 

[kyle88]

I tried Otman's idea and it didn't work. Sorry you posted when I was replying to his.

http://www.american-slangs.com/Idiom/Idiom65.html

dice?What exactly did you try. You tried your ID'er and they said no dice?Sometimes you have to trick them into doing stuff for you.



Or do you mean you were unsuccessful in exporting as outlines?



or were you unsuccessful in importing your outlines into Pro/ENGINEER?

Edited by: kyle88