This ensures it tries all options before choosing the best one. You can set your settings for AutoCAD to find the best matching font. During the process, AutoCAD compares each of the fonts until one is found that matches the selected text. The most common SHX fonts are listed by default, and you can add or remove SHX fonts based on your needs. A Settings option allows you to manage which SHX fonts you’d like to compare against and control more during the conversion.

You still manage to maintain a ton of control during this process. The way the tool works is through analyzing clusters of geometry from your selection and comparing them to characters in specified SHX cache files. You can access this from the Recognize SHX Text tool (PDFSHXTEXT command) on the Insert ribbon tab. In the 2018 release of AutoCAD, we are offered a SHX text recognition tool that enables you to select imported PDF geometry representing SHX text and convert to the necessary text objects. If the PDF file is then imported into a DWG file, the original SHX text is then imported as geometry and not recognized as text.

When a PDF file is created from a drawing, text that was defined with SHX fonts is stored as geometry in the PDF. SHX Text Recognition – Adobe’s PDF file format doesn’t recognize AutoCAD SHX fonts. One of the major and most impressive updates with documentation comes with SHX text recognition.

Autocad 2018 updates