Introduction to Font Families
- Last UpdatedFeb 15, 2023
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A font family combines a character set with a character style.
Character Sets
A character set is specified by name or by a CADC code number derived from its International Registration (ISO-IR) number or from its ISO 8859 part number. The available character sets are:
|
Name |
Code |
Description |
|---|---|---|
|
Latin-1 |
885901 |
ISO 8859-1 Latin alphabet No. 1 |
|
Latin-2 |
885902 |
ISO 8859-2 Latin alphabet No. 2 |
|
Latin-Cyrillic |
885905 |
ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic alphabet |
|
UK |
4 |
Standard UK ASCII (ISO 646 Reg 4) |
|
US |
6 |
Standard US ASCII (ISO 646 Reg 6) |
|
Greek |
18 |
ISO 2375 Registration 18 |
|
Cyrillic |
37 |
ISO 2375 Registration 37 |
The ISO 8859 sets contain all the characters of the standard US ASCII set plus ranges of extra punctuation marks, symbols, accents, accented characters, and combined characters.
Latin-1 provides additional characters for the following languages:
|
Danish |
Dutch |
Faroese |
Finnish |
|
French |
Icelandic |
Irish |
Spanish |
|
German |
Norwegian |
Portuguese |
Swedish |
|
Italian |
Latin-2 provides additional characters for the following languages:
|
Albanian |
Czech |
German |
Hungarian |
Polish |
|
Rumanian |
Serbo-Croatian |
Slovak |
Slovene |
Latin-Cyrillic provides additional characters for the following languages:
|
Bulgarian |
Byelorussian |
Macedonian |
|
Serbo-Croatian |
Ukrainian |
Russian |
Character Styles
The character styles are also specified by name or code number. The available styles are:
|
Name |
Code |
|---|---|
|
Line |
1 |
|
Block |
2 |
|
Serif |
3 |
|
Italic |
4 |
|
Script |
5 |
|
Typewriter |
6 |
|
UWLine (Uniform Width Line) |
7 |
Styles 1 to 5 are proportionally spaced; that is, the spacing of the characters varies depending on the characters.
Styles 6 and 7 have fixed spacing and so are better for the construction of lists or tables, where items must line up vertically.
Not all styles are available for every character set. An error will be output if a specified combination is not available.
User-Defined Fonts
A font family may also be defined by two user-supplied font files. One file is used to define the standard character set and the second (optional) file to define a bold version of it. These user-supplied files must be in AVEVA font-file format and have the suffix .gfb. AutoCAD character shape files (.shp format) can be converted to .gfb format using the Font Converter supplied as part of the Software Developer's Kit. For details contact your local AVEVA Solutions Support office, as shown on the copyright page of this manual.
Sloping Fonts
For each font family, the user can define an angle of slope between +85 and ‑85 degrees inclusive. This will cause the text to be sloped forwards (positive angles) or backwards (negative angles).