Posted by Walter Lapchynski on Jun 09, 2015; 8:39pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/font-problems-with-DXF-import-tp5711605p5711629.html

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First off, I should warn you guys that I'm not an engineer. I don't us
e CAD, but I'm acting in this case as a technical liason to our engine
er. That being said, if I say anything goofy, that's why. :)

As for the patch, it worked wonderfully. Thank you so much!

There is one remaining error in the "Third angle projection" which see
ms to be specified in the original DXF as:
{\fArial|b0|i0|c0|p0;Third angle projection}{\fArial|b0|i0|c0|p0;\H0.9
x;\P}{\fArial|b0|i0|c0|p0;\H0.9x;\P}{\fArial|b0|i0|c0|p0;\H0.9x;}


It renders as:
Third angle projection\H0.9x;\H0.9x;\H0.9x;

Since the oringal "APPROVED" was specified as:
{\fArial|b0|i0|c0|p0;APPROVED}{\fArial|b0|i0|c0|p0;}


…then it seems that this should be correct, but perhaps this is some p
roprietary AutoCAD thing where the backslash is some sort of delimiter
? It's also interesting that it stops rendering after the second semi-
colon, thus interpreting the "\P" as a new line of sorts.

Also, the arial.lff is not being applied to the text that is supposedl
y Arial.

The other thing I wonder about is how to make it render so that the te
xt does not run off the page. I suspect this is a matter of choosing t
he right standard font, since it does not seem that the formatting is
specified, as it is with the headings you fixed, but I'm not sure how
to solve this besides just guessing. Do you have any clues as to what
might be appropriate?

> About "issues with the non-text items" can be more specific?
> like screen capture or entity type and coordinates.

Perhaps this should be a new topic, but if you compare the previously
attached PDF, you can see how AutoCAD plots the drawing. If you look a
t the large figure near the top, at the bottom, the radius is shown as
 "R20 [R.787]" whereas LibreCAD shows it as "20.0000," kind of far awa
y from the arrow that indicates where that measurement exists. This su
ggests several problems, such as the number of significant digits, the
 displayed units, and a clear connection between the measurement and w
hat is being measured. Additionally, the diameter symbols are missing.

Not being a user of CAD software, I may be missing something, but it a
ppears that there's a lot of variables, some of which appear to be spe
cific to AutoCAD, that are in the head of the DXF. Perhaps there is so
mething here that's not being transferred over when opening in LibreCA
D? Or perhaps these represent systemwide plotter settings? I'm not sur
e, which, and frankly, I'm grasping at straws, so any help would be mo
st appreciated.

Thank you again, very much!
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Walter Lapchynski
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