Creating searchable PDF from AutoCAD

[Jeroen Dekker]

Our client uses a custom font named Romas in their AutoCAD drawings,
which are always outlined as vector graphics when generating PDF using
Acrobat.

It seems that to create 'searchable' PDF, i.e. with text preserved as
such, you need to a) use TrueType fonts in your AutoCAD drawings and
b) set the Acrobat printer driver to keep TrueType fonts as text
instead of graphics. Correct?

Now, they have many drawings, so the question becomes: is there a way
to change all (Romas) text strings in a drawing to a TrueType font in
a set of DWG files? A batch solution?

Thanks,

Jeroen Dekker
jeroen@square1.nl

[Paul Turvill]

Create a text style(s) using a TTF font (STYLE command); use the PROPERTIES
window to change non-TTF text objects to the style(s) using TTF fonts. If
it's too much to handle with a couple of commands in each drawing, it would
be quite straightforward to develop a script or LISP routine (or both) to
handle the chore.
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"Jeroen Dekker" <jeroen@square1.nl> wrote in message
news:757d0577.0411030105.66c4fbdf@posting.google.com... Now, they have many drawings, so the question becomes: is there a way to change all (Romas) text strings in a drawing to a TrueType font in a set of DWG files? A batch solution?

[bestafor]

HiHo;
A script file will do that.






"Jeroen Dekker" <jeroen@square1.nl> wrote in message
news:757d0577.0411030105.66c4fbdf@posting.google.com... Our client uses a custom font named Romas in their AutoCAD drawings, which are always outlined as vector graphics when generating PDF using Acrobat. It seems that to create 'searchable' PDF, i.e. with text preserved as such, you need to a) use TrueType fonts in your AutoCAD drawings and b) set the Acrobat printer driver to keep TrueType fonts as text instead of graphics. Correct? Now, they have many drawings, so the question becomes: is there a way to change all (Romas) text strings in a drawing to a TrueType font in a set of DWG files? A batch solution? Thanks, Jeroen Dekker jeroen@square1.nl