• The Two -Way street of Fonts...interoperability part 4

    Yes, Yes and Yes!

    I totally agree with you guys Steve an Jeffrey in several ways. First I would like to cheer you Steve for your creative suggestion of the TTF variable in order to make sure that no weird fonts are used.but only ones not creating problems. Locking the variables is of course a way to really make sure.

    Jeffrey you are sure not very sentimental about leaving the old behind and I congratulate you…

  • The Font Farewell Follow-Up...interoperability part 3

    Hooray for Comments and Feedback!

    Thanks Steve Meyer and Jeffrey Callicott for adding to this discussion. I love it. Not only because Jeffrey shares my feelings and also have good hope that the agreement between Bentley and Autodesk will lead to mutual ability to read SHX/RSC. That is all well... But we must also consider the world outside Audodesk and Bentley. TTFs are readable all over the place and our internal…

  • The Font Farewell - .....Interoperability part 2

    Last time I spoke on Naming Conventions but there is of course more to be done to really communicate.

    We are talking about Fonts of course. How many of you MicroStation users heve not been frustrated over not having the right SHX font available and how many AutoCAD users have not been frustrated in relation to the RSC-fonts? The mere fact that AutoCAD cannot handle RSC-fonts should give us a hint on that we have…

  • Time for REAL interoperability! Change names for things...

    Well folks isn't it nice with the Autodesk-Bentley agreement which might lead to better communication between AutoCAD and MicroStation.....

    But should we not now start talking about really making it easy for people to make the transition between different software platforms?  We can all participate.

    Let us first start with names - Let us call a Layer a Layer in MicroStation too. Historically it all came from…