Changing fonts

I would prefer that Eagle drops all support for proportional fonts and set all fonts hardcoded to vector.

It's the only way to guarantee that a font ends up as expected, everywhere and on every kind of system.

Also, imho, non-vector fonts make a schematic look amateurish.

I need it for documentation only. Vector font not support cyrillic.

Proportional font (Tahoma) is not good for russian standarts. I woud like

to change it to Autocad`s ISO font (ISOPEUR).

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Fox_Alex schrieb:

I need to select non-standart font for all text in the schematics, but

Eagle does not support it. So I have to export sheet to DXF and edit it

with Autocad. It`s working, but change font in Eagle would be very easier.

EAGLE only supports its built-in fonts.

The request for support of "external" fonts from the system is a very

long-standing one. Personally, I fear it won't be implemented at all.

Tilmann

Joop14 schrieb:

I would prefer that Eagle drops all support for proportional fonts and

set all fonts hardcoded to vector.

That is a very bad idea - unless they would finally implement a nice

looking vector font (like Hershey), which also is a very long-standing

request...

It's the only way to guarantee that a font ends up as expected,

everywhere and on every kind of system.

The built-in fonts guarantee that as well.

Also, imho, non-vector fonts make a schematic look amateurish.

But IMHO you're completely wrong here.

EAGLEs extremely ugly vector font makes schematics appear as if they

were created by some amateurish software that can't do better.

Tilmann

Let's agree that we don't agree.

The request for support of "external" fonts from the system is a very

long-standing one. Personally, I fear it won't be implemented at all.

Hi Guys,

This another one of those long standing requests. It's considered low

priority though, hence why it hasn't been implemented yet.

I used to be of the opinion that EAGLE should only use vector fonts

period. However, the proportional fonts are necessary for those who want

searchable PDFs from EAGLE. For whatever reason vector-font doesn't

produce a searchable PDF which is an important feature for many users.

I recall a little while ago, that someone made a Hershey text ULP which

basically writes all of the text in the board using the Hershey

font(much nicer IMHO). It's not without it's flaws(doesn't support

multi-line text) but the end result is quite useable.

I can't add it to the wishlist since it's already there.

hth,

Jorge Garcia

On 03.11.2015 17:58, Jorge Garcia wrote:

I used to be of the opinion that EAGLE should only use vector fonts

period. However, the proportional fonts are necessary for those who want

searchable PDFs from EAGLE. For whatever reason vector-font doesn't

produce a searchable PDF which is an important feature for many users.

There is no need for proportional fonts to make pdf's searchable, so

this argument is void. I have seen raw scanned pdf's searchable.

I'm not sure how this is done, but I would think its some kind of

metadata. Maybe this link is useful:

http://searchable-pdf.com/content.php?lang=en&c=61

CadSoft Guest wrote:

 

On 03.11.2015 17:58, Jorge Garcia wrote:

I used to be of the opinion that EAGLE should only use vector fonts

period. However, the proportional fonts are necessary for those who want

searchable PDFs from EAGLE. For whatever reason vector-font doesn't

produce a searchable PDF which is an important feature for many users.

 

There is no need for proportional fonts to make pdf's searchable, so

this argument is void. I have seen raw scanned pdf's searchable.

I'm not sure how this is done, but I would think its some kind of

metadata. Maybe this link is useful:

http://searchable-pdf.com/content.php?lang=en&c=61

 

 

I agree. Have a look at this thread: http://www.element14.com/community/thread/44740/l/pdf-is-not-searchable-again

Vector fonts should be the default imho. It looks more "professional" as well.

Ever seen the default font of altium? It's terrible.

Kind Regards,

Joop

Jorge Garcia schrieb:

The request for support of "external" fonts from the system is a very

long-standing one. Personally, I fear it won't be implemented at all.

 

Hi Guys,

 

This another one of those long standing requests. It's considered low

priority though, hence why it hasn't been implemented yet.

I agree that it's low priority.

I used to be of the opinion that EAGLE should only use vector fonts

period.

If the vector font wouldn't be that ugly, I would agree...

However, the proportional fonts are necessary for those who want

searchable PDFs from EAGLE. For whatever reason vector-font doesn't

produce a searchable PDF which is an important feature for many users.

As Morten already pointed out, these are different issues and not

necessarily related to each other.

I recall a little while ago, that someone made a Hershey text ULP which

basically writes all of the text in the board using the Hershey

font(much nicer IMHO). It's not without it's flaws(doesn't support

multi-line text) but the end result is quite useable.

Yes, I already use that Hershey ULP in some cases when the silk screen

on the board needs to be "more beautyful". (In schematics, I always use

proportional font only - but if EAGLE would support Hershey as built-in

font, I would be lucky with that also.)

But this ULP is cumbersome to use, particularly if anything changes in

your board after you used the ULP to generate nice looking text. (Not to

say anything against the ULP, the author did a great job and it's as

good as it can be.) A nice looking built-in vector font is the only

good solution - and this also is a very long-standing request that

should have been addressed years ago, IMHO. It shouldn't be too much

work to implement Hershey as fourth font. All you need is already there

and/or freely available.

Tilmann

Joop14 schrieb:

Vector fonts should be the default imho. It looks more "professional" as

well.

Ever seen the default font of altium? It's terrible.

You really think that the more terribly a font looks, the more

professional is the appearance of the CAD software?

Strange.

For me, it's more the other way round...

OK, we agree that we don't agree.

Tilmann

P.S. Even a vector font doesn't need to look that ugly (see Hershey).

Please don't confuse a fonts /generation/ with its /appearance/.