Read along as this article explores changes within MicroStation and some delves into some background information that you may find of interest.

With thanks to Bentleys Keith Bentley, Phil Chouinard, Venkat Kalyan, and Gary Zi for their knowledge on the discussion groups.

While in most cases this worked just fine, there were some issues when dealing with some RSC symbols.

Most notably - some symbols did not have corresponding character or glyph in the default TTF.

To overcome these limitations, a new feature was introduced in version 08.05.02.55 that generates an on-the-fly TTF when editing or placing RSC text.

Hence, the text in the word processor closely represents the characters in the selected RSC font.

Note, SHX fonts are not being converted at this time.).

To remedy this, refer to the following tip: Adjust The Text Size In The Text Editor Or Word Processor.

If these two items are problematic for you, and you are running a version newer than 08.05.02.55, you can turn off this on-the-fly conversion by setting this variable: MSWORDPROCESSORDISPLAYRSCUSINGDEFAULTFONT 1 In MicroStation V8 XM Edition SELECT Update 1 (08.09.03.57) creating an on-the-fly true type font has been enhanced.

When text with an RSC font is either placed or edited in a file, the font information is extracted, converted and exported to a true type font on-the-fly.

Youll be able to locate the extracted fonts by navigating to (MSTMP)TempFonts.

Note that MSTMP is set by default to C:Documents and SettingsUserNameLocal SettingsTempBentleyMicroStation8.9xxxxxxxxxxxTempFonts.

Installing them in the Windows Font folder is strongly discouraged.

The following information is paraphrased from a post by Keith Bentley.

In general, true type fonts are superior to RSC or SHX; particularly in appearance.

Convert Fonts To Ttf Professional Font Designers

The crafting of TTF glyphs and combinations of glyphs is done by professional font designers which generally hasnt happened with RSC or SHX fonts.

Convert Fonts To Ttf Software The Opposite

With todays software the opposite is true in that TTF are now the most efficient way to display text.

In fact, for non-Latin languages, true type fonts are often the only way to get advanced language features.

But, having said all that, there are a few issues with true type fonts that you should be aware of.

In contrast, you can usually ship your font RSC file or SHX files or pre-install them on all your computers.

You may still need a few RSC fonts for symbols, but minimize RSC and SHX font use as much as possible.

In the future there will likely be more features that only work, or work better, with true type fonts.

On the other hand, RSC fonts will be supported in their current form indefinitely, so theres no reason you need to switch if you dont want to.