Good afternoon, we upgraded from SW2015 to 2017 last week, so far pretty smooth. But when I open some of our old files I get a message about SW missing a font. It appears I can tell SW what new font to use, but it also appears I need to do this for every part file, which is a lot.
Can I copy and rename an existing font in C:\Windows\fonts and go on with life or any other ideas? We didn't get this message with 2015...
Thanks
I would just download the font and pop it in your C:/windows/fonts folder
That's the best answer! Thanks, I haven't thought much about fonts since MDT4.
We've had the same issue, but with a couple fonts that don't seem to even have been used! If templates were created on a computer with SW 2015, I don't understand why would opening those drawings in SW2017 on the same computer would then ask for missing fonts.
So, it doesn't seem like those fonts are even used on the template.
We have also been getting this error and can't understand if it was ok in 2016 and we haven't changed computers, why it is now missing in 2017. My favorite messages is this one.
We get ones that says they are mssing Sans Serif and check the font folder and it find that font is not really missing. So even if they say they are missing they aren't always missing.
Jenifer,
In my case, when I use utf8 fonts, Japanese or Chinese fonts I receive the exact same message. Japanese/Chinese fonts use Kanji characters in their fonts name and when I delete Japanese language from windows language list, this happens.
I think the message box tries to show the fonts name, but the character (kanji in this case) doesn't exist in windows library.
I would just download the font and pop it in your C:/windows/fonts folder
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