If all or some of your text is plotted horizontally, it means that you used non-plotter fonts in your drawing. Pen plotters are unable to print TrueType fonts to any angle except horizontally. (This is a limitation of pen plotters, not of "Sight" Survey. Inkjet and laser plotters are able to use TrueType fonts properly.)  Use the Selection Filter (SF) and the Change Text Properties (XT) routine to select all text on your drawing and change it to a plotter font such as Modern, Roman, or Script. If these fonts don't appear on your list of fonts, set up your plotter as the default printer in the Printers Setup dialog box accessed through the Windows Control Panel.

If you are using an HPGL plotter, you should be aware that there is a bug in the HPGL TrueType plotter driver. If you want vertical or diagonal text on an HPGL plotter, you must use a plotter (stroke) font as described in the previous paragraph.

If you are using an HP Draftmaster, Draftpro Plus, or one of the HP DesignJet plotters, you can download the new HPGL2 plotter driver for Windows from hp.com. This fixes the text rotation problem with the plotter driver. This driver should also work with any other plotter that supports the HPGL2 plotter language.  

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