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Chief Architect X10 Reference Manual

Fonts and Alphabets

Chief Architect allows you to use any font • Using the Mac Character Viewer;
found in your computer’s Fonts directory. • Typing the keystroke associated with the

For best printed results, using true-type or character.
open-type fonts is recommended. See “Copying and Pasting Text” on page
507.
Blueprint Fonts
Three architectural fonts: Chief Blueprint, Character Size
City Blueprint, and Country Blueprint are
installed in the Windows Fonts directory Text , Callouts , Markers ,
when Chief Architect is installed. Schedules , and dimension numbers can
be sized to 1/128” accuracy (0.078125 mn).
See “Text Style Panel” on page 520.
These objects use CAD Style Font Sizing,
which specifies text size as the measurement
from the baseline to the topmost part of the
capital letter A, as in most CAD programs.
On Mac systems, these fonts are embedded
with the Chief Architect installation but not In legacy files migrated into Version X10, an
installed on the system. As such, they are additional Legacy Compatible Size option
available for use in Chief Architect but not in will be available for some objects if it was
other programs. specified in the original program version.
When this method is used, text size is based
International Alphabets on information stored in the font that is then
modified to approximate the specified
The Rich Text tool supports unicode Character Height.
alphabets and characters. In order to use a
unicode alphabet or characters, the Rich Text objects have two font sizing
appropriate language support must be methods to choose from: CAD Style Font
installed on your computer. Sizing and a method similar to most word
processing applications, where size is based
Special characters can be added to any Rich on information stored in the font. See
Text object by: “Options Panel” on page 498.
• Copying and pasting the character from Missing Fonts
another application;
• Copying and pasting the character from If you open a plan or layout file that uses a
the Windows Character Map; font that is not installed on the current
computer, the program will give you an

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