AVEVA Font File Names

AVEVA font file names follow a naming convention. This is described fully in AVEVA’s font-building utilities, but is briefly summarized here.

AVEVA font families are defined by their IR (International Registration) number and Style number in the system database. Font file names are of the form marrrtswuu, where m=0; a is the alphabet; rrr is the encoding; ts is the type and sub-type; w is the weight; and uu is a serial number. AVEVA fonts are exported to AutoCAD as either filled (prefix f), or open (prefix of). All font-files have an 8-character equivalent short name:

Generally, Marine uses the 8-bit Latin fonts (08901) instead of US fonts (01006), since these include US characters. Thus IR number 6 Style number 1 is font of0890111901 (short name O8111901); IR number 4 Style number 3 is of 0100421191 (short name OLB21191), bold version of 0100421291 (OLB21291).

The fonts available in Draft are organized into four font families. Each font family uses up to two font files to set up a range of six font numbers. For example, font family 3 contains two font files to set up fonts 31-33 (normal, forward and back-slant) and the equivalent bold font 34-36.

In addition, Draft uses a Symbol font for special characters (for example, ~D gives the degrees symbol). The AVEVA SYMBOL font is of0999911901.shx (shortname OOP11901). The equivalent filled font is f0999911901.shx (shortname FOP11901).

To determine the font families used in a project, the following Admin command should be used:

Q FONTFamily

In typical AVEVA projects, font family 1 is a line font; font family 2 is a block font; font family 3 is a serif font and font family 4 an italic or typewriter font. Different projects will use different fonts. The following font files are used in the SAM project and are set up in pdmsSamFont.rsc: