Don’t know which font to use? Until AutoCAD offers a WYSIWYG font drop-down list (send in your wish lists, folks!), you can print out truetype.dwg, which comes with AutoCAD in the /Sample folder. It probably doesn’t contain all the fonts on your computer but does have a sample of enough fonts for most people.
Ellen Finkelstein is the author of the best-selling AutoCAD & AutoCAD LT Bible, which started with R14. Ellen has written extensively on AutoCAD, including articles for Autodesk’s website and features for AutoCAD’s Help system. Ellen’s first book was AutoCAD For Dummies Quick Reference.
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i have made a little .dwg with all of the font names typed out in their respective fonts. i find it helpful, so if anybody would like a copy, let me know!
Hi Virginia, I think thats a great idea, I always spend a lot of time with oicking different typefaces. Can I request the file from you? It would be very handy, and thank you for your work on this.
Sinerely,
Joe