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  • Support for Embedded TrueType (TTF) font in MicroStation Print/Interplot/ICS authored PDF files

    We switched over from traditional RSC fonts to a unified TrueType font (TTF) family and have been struggling with modern PDF applications (e.g. Acrobat, Bluebeam, web browsers, etc.) rendering the MicroStation-authored TrueType font characters such as…
  • Create Fractions with VBA

    In response to a question on the Programming Forum I developed a VBA macro to create a numeric fraction . It can, like MicroStation, create any fraction, using any font: it is not restricted to the glyphs available in MicroStation's RSC font libraries…
  • A TrueType font library that provides drafting and other CAD symbols

    Some time ago I posted this Idea . The Ideas Forum has been updated and shows a post date 27-Jan-21, which is the date that the Forum was updated, not the date that I created that idea. That Idea also shows my suggestion to be shipped . If that is the…
  • Les polices TrueType sont-elles installées avec MicroStation?

    Produit(s): MicroStation Version(s): N\A Environnent: N\A Domaine: Texte Sous-Domaine: N\A Description du problème D'où proviennent les polices TrueType utilisé par MicroStation? auraient…
  • MS_FONTPATH vs. MS_TTFPATH

    According to USTN Content, MS_FONTPATH "specifies a list of directories that are searched to locate fonts. Any .RSC, .SHX, or .TTF/ttc file found in any directory in the list is loaded and/or available for use." According to this Bentley Communities…
  • A TrueType font library that provides drafting and other CAD symbols

    It's currently impossible to create a text element in MicroStation that contains a drafting symbol (such as a center line ). A drafting TrueType font library would solve that problem. MicroStation text could include the drafting symbol along with other…
  • Fonts mit @-Zeichen

    Produkt(e): MicroStation Version(en): 10.09.00.24 Umgebung: N\A Produktbereich: Text Produktunterbereich: Schriftarten Problem Beim Aussuchen einer TrueType-Schriftart im Textverarbeitungsprogramm…
  • Pseudozellen mit Texten, Font ändern

    Produkt(e): MicroStation Version(en): 08.11.x Umgebung: N\A Produktbereich: Text Produktunterbereich: Allgemein Problem Es existieren in einer oder mehreren Zeichnungen eine Reihe von Pseudozellen…
  • RE: HALO or Outline for Text

    Unknown said: I think Eric means its external data You're probably right — but that's not what Eric wrote. Since this is a public Forum and not a private conversation I sought to clarify the difference between data and software. MS_FONTPATH Unknown…
  • Fonts In MicroStation

    Product: MicroStation Version: V8 XM, V8i, CONNECT Environment: N\A Area: Annotation Subarea: N/A Fonts in MicroStation This is a collection of information related to fonts in MicroStation…
  • Printing TrueType fonts

    08.05.02.70 I'm trying to print some drawings with TrueType fonts from MicroStation but the text is too dark / bold / thick. I can print other drawings with TT fonts through IPlot and they look fine, but I need to be able to do this through…
  • Re: About true type font

    zgLee: The TrueType font number also changes sometimes. Because in MicroStation MDL program, we can only use font number to change the font of text, not by font name. If the TrueType font number isn't unique, the font of text won't be fixed. …
  • Re: Font symbols

    Can you pelase try deleting the True type font for roman in $(MS_TMP)\GeneratedTTFonts --Abeesh
  • Re: Does the perfect Font exist?

    Unknown said: I am looking for the perfect Font You've joined a club with many existing members, all searching for that elusive grail. According to this Wiki entry about fonts there are well in excess of 10,000 fonts in OpenType™ or TrueType™ format…
  • Re: RSC Font equivalents?

    Bigean, on every Windows Machine the TrueType or OpenType Version of Microsoft Arial is installed and can be used in any modern CAD Software. Despite the apparent typographic restrictions of Arial compared to true CAD fonts (like the ISO…
  • Does Microstation v8i make a TrueType of an Microstation .rsc text?

    I noticed the first time I use a Microstation .rsc font in V8i I get a message regarding creating a TrueType font? Is this file stored somewhere? Brian Thomas Selser Schaefer Architects