PostScript font format is a quality-certified font format for professional printing thanks to its definition of analytical geometric elements. In addition to this, professionals also use high-quality PostScript font printers dedicated to publishing. CATIA Version 4 FONT format. TrueType font (TTF) format.

Drafting (IntDraft) / TRUE TYPE FONTS GETS COMPRESSED WHEN THE DRAWING IS SAVED INTO OTHER FORMAT. Open the CATDrawing in CATIA V5 - 2 text lines in Sheet 1 of CATDrawing - One line using attached Helvetica-Bold Font -- One line using Details representing a Font made of symbols Converted from V4 Note; You can see that both Fonts are almost identical, except for the spacing. Save CATDrawing as any other Format. RESULT --> True type Font Shrank from CATDrawing to new format. True type Font Shrank from CATDrawing to new format.

EXPECTED RESULT. When exported to another format True Type font should be the same as original document.. Local fix Problem summary •.

Drafting (IntDraft) / TRUE TYPE FONTS GETS COMPRESSED WHEN THE DRAWING IS SAVED INTO OTHER FORMAT Drafting (IntDraft) / TRUE TYPE FONTS GETS COMPRESSED WHEN THE DRAWING IS SAVED INTO OTHER FORMAT. Open the CATDrawing in CATIA V5 - 2 text lines in Sheet 1 of CATDrawing - One line using attached Helvetica-Bold Font -- One line using Details representing a Font made of symbols Converted from V4 Note; You can see that both Fonts are almost identical, except for the spacing.

Save CATDrawing as any other Format. RESULT --> True type Font Shrank from CATDrawing to new format.

True type Font Shrank from CATDrawing to new format. EXPECTED RESULT.

When exported to another format True Type font should be the same as original document.. Problem conclusion •. THIS PROBLEM WILL BE FIXED ON CATIA VERSION 5 RELEASE 18 GA level. Incident Diagnosis: When a text was created using a True Type Font, its display was sometime different when exported in external formats (pdf, gl2, etc). Reason: This was because True Type Font was sometime visualized differently in CATIA V5 than in other format viewers. Starting from V5R18, a new visualization of True Type Font in CATIA V5 will insure higher consistency with other format viewers. To make sure that Drafting annotations using True Type Font which were created on previous CATIA levels are visualized without any difference on CATIA V5R18 and upper levels, this new visualization will be enabled only for Drafting annotations newly created on CATIA V5R18 or upper levels.

The display will not get compressed when the drawing is saved in other formats. Answer and By-Pass: It is possible to use a Postscript version of the font to avoid this issue on V5R17 level.

An enhancement of True Type Font visualization will be provided on CATIA V5R18 level, that will remove this issue for newly created Drafting annotations using True Type Font. Temporary fix Comments APAR Information.