If he clicked , he would be signing a contract with the devil of default settings. The computer would look at the intricate, jagged serifs of the Gothic text and say, “Close enough,” before replacing them with the bland, smooth lines of Arial or Calibri.

Not at all. It is purely a document formatting message, not a security alert or virus warning.

If you need the document to look exactly as intended, you have several options:

: You are opening a file created by someone else who has specialized fonts.

If you are printing from Adobe Acrobat or a PDF viewer:

Native AutoCAD compiled shape fonts (e.g., romans.shx ).