Monday, October 16, 2006
Font Management Strategy
Administration Topic: Managing TrueType versus AutoCAD standard fonts.
Our master network font directory for both TrueType and SHX fonts is as follows, store all new and updated fonts to this location for general distribution:
n:\cad\acadnet\abs2006\autodesk\fonts
Our AutoCAD update script will then distribute ALL standard fonts, both TrueType and Autodesk shape file (.shx), to the following local directory, which is our configured workstation AutoCAD font path:
c:\abs2006\autodesk\fonts
Windows does not read TrueType fonts from this directory however, so it is necessary for the update script to also keep the Windows standard font directory refreshed with any TrueType font updates. For this the update script uses the NT Resource Kit utility 'robocopy.exe' with three switches:
:refreshfonts
robocopy.exe c:\abs2006\autodesk\fonts %WINDIR%\fonts *.ttf /xo /w:0 /r:0
/xo - excludes old files, i.e. doesn't overwrite newer files with older files
/w:0 /r:0 - wait 0 seconds and retry 0 times for a file in use
Our master network font directory for both TrueType and SHX fonts is as follows, store all new and updated fonts to this location for general distribution:
n:\cad\acadnet\abs2006\autodesk\fonts
Our AutoCAD update script will then distribute ALL standard fonts, both TrueType and Autodesk shape file (.shx), to the following local directory, which is our configured workstation AutoCAD font path:
c:\abs2006\autodesk\fonts
Windows does not read TrueType fonts from this directory however, so it is necessary for the update script to also keep the Windows standard font directory refreshed with any TrueType font updates. For this the update script uses the NT Resource Kit utility 'robocopy.exe' with three switches:
:refreshfonts
robocopy.exe c:\abs2006\autodesk\fonts %WINDIR%\fonts *.ttf /xo /w:0 /r:0
/xo - excludes old files, i.e. doesn't overwrite newer files with older files
/w:0 /r:0 - wait 0 seconds and retry 0 times for a file in use
# posted by Brandon Nichols @ 10:26 AM
