Cannot use OpenType font

fredericklim
fredericklim
in 2D Drafting

I bought two OpenType fonts on myfonts.com, I can use the fonts in other applications, including Rhino, Blender, but not in BricsCAD. I cannot find the font In Drawing Explorer->Text Styles. Anyone know why and solution?

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  • RSW
    RSW

    There are two flavours of OpenType fonts:
    OTF - OpenType PostScript style
    TTF - OpenType TrueType style.

    BricsCAD can use OpenType TTF fonts but not OpenType OTF fonts (though I think it should simply support OTF fonts as well as I can't see a valid reason not to, but there are quite a few CAD and e.g. database programs etc. that still do not support OpenType OTF fonts for quite a few years).

    You may want to check if the font are OTF or TTF style fonts. Upon purchase on MyFonts you can see if the font is supllied as OTF, TTF or even supplied as both at the bottom of the page with the description etc. of the font. That way you can check if it will be usable for you in BricsCAD or not.

    You also may want to have a look at Fontspring instead of MyFonts, as Fontspring also offers a TTF download of you font order if the font is offically OTF only. This TTF may be the old-style plain TrueType or it may be OpenType TrueType but this depends on the font creator providing TTF fonts as well (and some still provide old-style plain TTF next to OTF) or how FontSpring converts the font.
    https://www,fontspring.com

    Then there is the option of using a font converter to convert your OTF fonts to TTF fonts. Some are online converters (free or paid) and some are desktop conversion applications like TransType from FontLab or font editors like HighLogic FontCreator, FontLab Studio and FontLab VI, Fontographer (also by FontLab) , Type 3.2 by CR8 software. Some are windows only and some are available for MacOS as well.
    https://new.fontlab.com/font-converter/transtype/
    https://high-logic.com/font-editor/fontcreator
    https://cr8software.net/index.html
    https://www.fontlab.com/font-editor/fontlab-vi/
    https://old.fontlab.com/font-editor/fontographer/

    Not sure if Fontographer will be around for quite a while or not, but it is a good program and less expensive than FontLab.

  • fredericklim
    fredericklim

    Thanks so much for the detail reply. I tried to convert the font using one of the online font converter from Postscript outline to TrueType outline then the font listed in TextStyle successfully.

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