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The firm that I work with has been using the same font for 20 years. Arch.shx is not a Word True Type font. I am setting up our Revit template and titleblock and need to find a way to import this font into Revit. Any ideas, or am I stuck with Word fonts?
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hello and welcome 
fonts are part of windows AFAIK.
when you put a text in, go to the properties and you will see a "text Font" the default is arial if you click on it you should see a list of all your fonts.
pick and choose and off you go...
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You will need to acquire a True Type font. Adobe's Graphite Std. is very close to arch.shx.
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You can try downloading High-Logic's Font Creator from http://www.high-logic.com/. It creates letters from images. This is a very roundabout process and it's a bit tedious, but I think it's worthwhile to preserve your company's "look"
Type all your letters, numbers and symbols in AutoCAD. Make them fairly large, a couple of inches maybe, it depends on your font. It will take some experimenting and some working back and forth in this process to get the size and lineweight correct.
Make a PDF of your text and open the PDF in Photoshop. Bring it in at 600 ppi resolution. Open the Font Creator (it's a trial version, but it has full functionality for 30 days. This should only take about a day) The Font Creator will have placeholder letters in an Arial/Helvetica type font. Open one of the "Glyphs" by double-clicking on it. Copy the corresponding letter from Photoshop and paste it into the Glyph tile. Repeat this until you have all your letters represented.
After you've done all that you'll have to test your new font. Font Creator has a preview mode so you don't have to load up your new .TTF and try it in Word or something. Once it looks like it's close to what you want, save it and load it as a system font (again, the program has buttons that automate this process).
In the same AutoCAD file that you typed your .SHX characters, type the same sequence (or copy and change) in your new .TTF font. You can print out both sequences on the same sheet and compare them to make any changes necessary to make the two fonts look the same. Font Creator has plenty of tools for tweaking your .TTF font, so you can adjust the kerning, the standard spacing, etc.
Like I said before, this is a tedious process. It took me a solid day to get it right, but now our Revit sheets look like our AutoCAD sheets and we can work smoothly between the two programs.
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