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380 ANNOTATION - Recognizing SHX text in PDF imports

380 ANNOTATION - Recognizing SHX text in PDF imports - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Tips & Tricks

380 ANNOTATION - Recognizing SHX text in PDF imports

- [Instructor] Welcome to another tip and trick for AutoCAD. We're going to be taking a look at how AutoCAD can recognize SHX fonts and textiles in a PDF that's been imported into an AutoCAD drawing. Now, that might sound really, really complex. It isn't. A lot of the time, we work with PDFs, and those PDFs have text on them. And a lot of the time, those PDFs are utilizing text styles with fonts that we wouldn't normally use anymore. They tend to be the SHX fonts, things like Romans and so on that are quite antiquated now, and we tend to use a lot more of the TrueType fonts in Windows, for example, fonts such as Calibri and Arial and so on. Now, we've got a blank drawing for you to download from the library. It's called 380-ImportedPDF.dwg. Download it from the library and open it up and you'll see when you open it up in the model tab that PDF import is the current drafting layer. That's all you need to worry about…

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