@H Martin Shoemaker said:
Mike,

I sent you a PM with a conversion done by FONTasm!. I don't know if that software is available now. FONTasm! does not optimize the converted file but the file does work.

Arial Narrow Free Font

If the Arial Narrow font is missing on your system, it may very well have a visible impact on some of the user interface (panels) of Project Dogwaffle. On some Windows systems, such as Windows 7 / 64-bit, recent releases, and perhaps even on earlier similar releases (we don't know exactly), the Monotype Arial Narrow font (a TrueType font) is not included by default with the operating system.

A SHX font will not look as sharp as a TTF. This is because a TTF essentially draws a border with a 0 width pen then does a solid fill with no overrun, but a SHX draws the border with a pen that has width, so the character always has half a pen width outside the border.

I ran across a post that said blurry TTF are generally caused by Z values issues. Does flatten help?

If I wanted to regularly use a SHX version of Arial I'd start with with the available outline SHX and design my own fill. Not hard but very tedious. I can provide directions on how to do this if you'd like.

AutoCad 2D:: Arial Narrow Font Display In 2011 Jun 19, 2011. Why the Arial narrow font used in dwg files from earlier Acad version won't display as expected in Acad 2011/Windows 7/32 Bit. The program Autodesk® AutoCAD® supports the Unicode character-encoding standard. SHX font encoded, using the Unicode standard font, can contain many more characters than are defined in the Windows system; therefore, to use a character not directly available from the keyboard, you can enter the escape sequence U+nnnn, where nnnn represents the Unicode hexadecimal value for the character. Arial Narrow Autocad Font 2017 Isolate text objects and copy them into clean drawings until a corrupt object is found. Rebuild the corrupt object (s) in a separate drawing. Reinsert the corrected objects into the effected drawings. Reset the text styles by assigning them a different font (i.e., set. Sans-Serif fonts On this page you can download Arial Narrow font version Version 2.20, which belongs to the family Arial Narrow (Regular tracing). Font manufacturer is Arial-Narrow. Download Arial Narrow for free on AllFont.net.

Thank you. I'll give it a try. I downloaded a pack of some 400+ SHX fonts, narrowed them down to the Arial look-alikes, then weeded them out further until I had just a dozen or so left. I then plotted them out and narrowed them down to just one which didn't show up as bold or fuzzy and had the necessary special characters.

I've found that in BricsCAD, TTF text doesn't show up as blurry or fuzzy when a Z value is assigned. This issue is specifically related to text located in the xref at the clipline.

Arial Narrow Truetype Font

I have the outline SHX of Arial, but I haven't a clue how to do the fill. Some help on that would be welcome.