Squeezing and resizing MTEXT

[Landdogger]

Is it possible to squeeze the width of the text in an MTEXT box? Where can I find a WIDTH FACTOR setting for these text boxes?

Thanks!

[Strix]

properties?

turn on your properties box, and when you select your text you'll be able to modify it's criteria

[Landdogger]

There's no WIDTH FACTOR property for the MTEXT boxes. The width textbox only changes the width of the actual box, not the text.

[Strix]

dtext used to have a FIT function - does MTEXT do that too?

[Strix]

hmmm, there should be a full editor facility where you should be able to select it's width factor

this is going to irritate me now as I don't have access to AutoCAD on this machine to go prod about at

[Landdogger]

If I explode the MTEXT box, I can edit each line's width factor separately, but that doesn't do any good.

[Strix]

eeek - you don't want to go doing things like that!

hang on a mo and I'll see if I can get my hands on the other machine

[Strix]

ok, I'm wrong - use DTEXT instead if you need a width factor

[Strix]

is it possible to set the widthfactor in a text style? before MTEXTing?

[Norts]

is it possible to set the widthfactor in a text style? before MTEXTing?

yes it is, just enter STYLE

[Strix]

thanks Norts :)

bit of a pain having to do it that way though isn't it?

why is this a function that didn't make it from Dtext to Mtext?

[Norts]

give them a chance. they have only just incorporated attributes into mtext