ASCII Characters vs. font.rsc
ASCII Characters vs. font.rsc
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I am allowed limited font choices for drawings, to-wit: Engineering, Intl Engineering, Intl Iso, and similar blocked fonts.
Issue: the sol-called "plus/minus" character or "±" I get by typing-in alt-0177 (Using Windows OS) comes out as 35/64. I can play around with different fonts, but I'm not getting any closer. I had a similar problem with the diameter symbol, "Ø" or alt-0216, that came out as an asterix, but solved it with appropriate font selection.
I can add as many fonts as I want (I happen to really like Arial Rounded MT Bold) but the more decorative fonts, even Microstaion's own Swiss, though they look really, really slick, tend to "take over" a drawing (i.e., they stick out too much) and worse, we have a standard that demands the use of boring fonts.
Thoughts? Has anyone conquered the ASCII character set?
I'm currently using Microstation J, though will switch to V8 in the near future.
Issue: the sol-called "plus/minus" character or "±" I get by typing-in alt-0177 (Using Windows OS) comes out as 35/64. I can play around with different fonts, but I'm not getting any closer. I had a similar problem with the diameter symbol, "Ø" or alt-0216, that came out as an asterix, but solved it with appropriate font selection.
I can add as many fonts as I want (I happen to really like Arial Rounded MT Bold) but the more decorative fonts, even Microstaion's own Swiss, though they look really, really slick, tend to "take over" a drawing (i.e., they stick out too much) and worse, we have a standard that demands the use of boring fonts.
Thoughts? Has anyone conquered the ASCII character set?
I'm currently using Microstation J, though will switch to V8 in the near future.





RE: ASCII Characters vs. font.rsc
Your best bet is to probably just edit your MS font. Illinois DOT has a couple of fonts that replace characters like the tilde (~) with CL and BL and +-, etc. If you would like, I could e-mail you the .rsc file.
Rob