A couple of questions about fonts:
We have a company font (.RSC) that we use in V8i SS3. That font has a "number" of 1, replacing the generic "WORKING" font. When that font .RSC is now put into the MS_SYMBRSRC path, and we open a V8i drawing in CONNECT, we do not see our font at all in the font list (looking at the drop-down in the General tab of the Text Styles tool). It shows font 1 as being "WORKING". So, in order to figure out why, we've renamed ALL the .rsc files located in the MS_SYMBRSRC path with a .rscX file extension. When we re-open a drawing and invoke the Text Style tool, we can still see the "delivered" .RSC fonts - why? Where are they being read from?
How do we get CONNECT to use our font .RSC file as the "number 1" font instead of using "WORKING" as the number 1 font? We have embedded special symbols into our .RSC font, that when now opened/viewed in CONNECT, are lost because CONNECT is not using our .RSC font and is using the default WORKING font instead, which does not have the special characters...
Thanks,
Bruce
Well - I just had a thought ! What if even though we renamed the font resource from "Font.rsc" to "Font.rscX", that maybe it was being found anyway by the "filter" of "*.rsc" as specified in MS_SYMBRSRC (we are on Windows 10). So we renamed it "Font.Xrsc" instead, and the results look much better - most of the .RSC fonts are now gone in the Text Styles tool. Now we see only these:
Still not sure where they are being read from, but this is an improvement. It still does not solve the issue of our .RSC font "1" being clobbered by the delivered font "1". Maybe the order in which it is found via MS_SYMBRSRC?
Yep - that was it. Moving our location for the font to the end of the search path has now seemingly "solved" the issue....
Answer Verified By: Bruce Reeves SRNS
How are you defining MS_SYMBRSRC as an = versus < or >? What is MS_SYMBRSRC defined as? If you only want it to find 1 rsc font file you could point MS_SYMBRSRC to that specific file. MS_SYMBRSRC = $(CIVIL_ORGANIZATION_STANDARDS)fonts\myfonts.rsc or you can have it process specific files in an order by defining it as MS_SYMBRSRC = $(CIVIL_ORGANIZATION_STANDARDS)fonts\z.rsc then MS_SYMBRSRC = $(CIVIL_ORGANIZATION_STANDARDS)fonts\a.rsc
Yes the order in which it process the font files will effect what is being displayed in the list. It use to be that rsc was the last one in wins. SO two files (a.rsc & z.rsc) both containing font 1 the software would use font 1 from z.rsc. This changed with DGNlibs as its the first one in wins. I am not aware of them changing this behavior in CONNECT with regards to RSC.
~HTH
John.
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John Frampton said:How are you defining MS_SYMBRSRC
MS_SYMBRSRC > $(_USTN_ORGANIZATION)symb/*.rsc # Symbology resources
Try
MS_SYMBRSRC = $(_USTN_ORGANIZATION)symb/*.rsc # Symbology resources
This will remove everything prior to the organization level.