idea Warning for non installed fonts in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Warning for non installed fonts

BobMijwaard — Wed, 01 May 2024 19:40:56 GMT

It would be very nice to have a warning when a font mentioned in the MXD is not installed on the PC. More or less like Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign do.
At the moment the not available font is changed to the standard font on the PC, Arial for example without ANY warning. When the MXD is saved this can damage your layout completely.

Re: Warning for non installed fonts

JurajKrumpolec — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:07:04 GMT

Besides fonts other layout elements should be monitored (inserted pictures, embedded objects, etc.) to have the MXD ready in original quality anytime and anywhere, like requested in: Automatically detect potential issues before printing or exporting maps.

Information about not installed fonts

AnjaSeckel — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 14:37:29 GMT

Hello all,

we have a map-template with specific fonts (Zurich, Univers, ...). The replacement of a computer is very common for different reasons. We update the software for the map-production at the new computer, but often not all fonts are installed. If we open a map-document in ArcMap, some specific fonts get Arial. It would be nice if ArcMap give the user a hint, that some fonts will be replaced after saving the document. To repair this error is very timecomsuming.

Thanks.

Re: Information about not installed fonts

RobertBorchert — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 16:31:50 GMT

I strongly agree. I have 74 GIS fonts installed, not to mention the standard Windows Fonts.

I have had this issue in the past. However, I have not made it a habit to only use standard windows true type fonts in all situations where an ArcGIS Font is not being use.

We are fortunate though in my department that our IT staff automatically transfers all fonts to our new computers. But often we will create a GIS for a client and send it off to them and then get reports of odd looking symbols.

We keep a zip file of all the fonts on our network that we can use to install them all but being notified when a font does not exist would be a great bonus.

Re: Information about not installed fonts

JonMorris2 — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 09:09:41 GMT

As a workaround, you could run a script to check the required fonts are installed. I wrote something similar a few years ago - here it is slightly modified. If you create a text file requiredfonts.txt with all the fonts you need, the script will check they are all present.

@echo off

setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

reg export "hklm\software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\fonts" %COMPUTERNAME%fonts.reg

if exist %COMPUTERNAME%fontsReg.txt del %COMPUTERNAME%fontsReg.txt /q

if exist %COMPUTERNAME%fontsByDate.txt del %COMPUTERNAME%fontsByDate.txt /q

:: look at fonts in registry ::

for /f "tokens=1-2* delims==" %%a in ('type %COMPUTERNAME%fonts.reg') do (

if "%%~b" neq "" (

set FONTPATH=%%~b

if "!FONTPATH!" equ "!FONTPATH::\=!" set FONTPATH=c:\windows\fonts\%%~b

if "!FONTPATH!" neq "!FONTPATH:\\=!" set FONTPATH=!FONTPATH:\\=\!

:: check if font is in fonts folder ::

if not exist "!FONTPATH!" (

echo %%~a found in registry but not C:\Windows\Fonts

) else (

echo %%~b >> %COMPUTERNAME%fontsReg.txt

for /f "tokens=*" %%c in ('dir "!FONTPATH!" /b/s/a') do (

echo %%a %%~tc >> %COMPUTERNAME%fontsByDate.txt

)

:: check required list ::

if exist requiredfonts.txt (

for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('type requiredfonts.txt') do (

for /f "tokens=2 delims=:" %%c in ('find /i /c "%%a" %COMPUTERNAME%fontsReg.txt') do (

if %%c equ 0 (

echo %%a not found on %COMPUTERNAME%.

)

pause

endlocal

goto :eof

Re: Information about not installed fonts

AnjaSeckel — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 12:11:23 GMT

Hello Jon,

thank you very much for the script. You idea sounds good. I will speek with our IT-branch to use this script. Maybe that helps the ArcGIS-user for the future. Thanks again.

Re: Warning for non installed fonts

AZendel — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 17:35:32 GMT

Yes, please!

Re: Warning for non installed fonts - Status changed to: Under Consideration

WendyHarrison — Wed, 01 May 2024 19:42:02 GMT