To choose what fonts are used and uploaded to your variable message sign, you must
configure your DMS entity fonts.
What you should know
- To change a DMS entity's fonts, it must be put in Offline mode.
- Changing a DMS entity's fonts resets the messages activated on the sign. This should
only be done as part of the sign's initial setup or maintenance.
Procedure
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From the Config
Tool home page, open the
Area view task.
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From the entity tree, select your DMS entity.
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Click the Fonts tab, and in the
Configuration section, set the font settings:
- Default font
- Select a font to use on the sign by default for all displayed messages.
- Skip font upload
- Skips fonts upload when a message is activated on the sign. This is enabled by
default.
If your sign already has the fonts you need, you do not need to upload fonts
to it each time you activate a message.
- Font query timeout
- Define a time limit after which the system will stop searching for new fonts.
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Click Apply.
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To list all the fonts that are available for the sign, click
Refresh.
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To download the fonts that are available for the sign to your computer, click
Download.
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To add a font, click Add ().
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To remove a font from the list, click Delete ().
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To preview a font character, in the Font list section, select a
font, then in the character list, select a character.
The selected character is displayed on the right-hand side.