Text Style

Hi, me again. I'm on a roll today

I have a text style called romans which I want all text on a drawing to be of that style but it doesn't seem to want to switch to it. It Switches to style romans ok but still stays the old font.

Is there anyway I can do like a bylayer on the text so it will change to font style romans?

Cheers

Drawing2.dwg

That's because somebody has used MTEXT and embedded the font definition in the contents and not used the style command.

I am sure there is an easy was of removing the formatting, but I have yet to find it.

I am confused about the attached drawing. What text do you want to use?

I am confused about the attached drawing. What text do you want to use?

Sorry if I didn't make it clear.

The text on the left, style ROMANS font ROMANS.

Are you highlighting the text? I make that mistake to.

And I was able to change it over here on my side.

just in case I have missed the point, you expect the text on the right to look like the text on the left.

just in case I have missed the point, you expect the text on the right to look like the text on the left.

That's the way I took it. So that is what I did.

Drawing2.dwg

so how did you get it to lose the Ariel font embedded in the contents?

so how did you get it to lose the Ariel font embedded in the contents?

That's what I want to know too!

I highlighted the text and choose the style. Just like I normally do.

I highlighted the text and choose the style. Just like I normally do.

I did that, some of the text changes while others still stayed Ariel Narrow

maybe its something to do with Architecture, I can't get it to work in plain 2008

maybe its something to do with Architecture, I can't get it to work in plain 2008

All I have are AEC features and objects (I think). You think it has something to do with my Architecture?

Works ok for me on LT2005.

To clarify, you have to double click the text and change the FONT within the text editor, as this is where the style has been overridden.

I know that works but the OP said he had lots of text so I didn't think he wanted to do that to every bit of text.

Had an Arial style been created and used rather than changing the font in the original MTEXT object a change of style would have changed all instances of the style.

Hi, me again. I'm on a roll today

 

I have a text style called romans which I want all text on a drawing to be of that style but it doesn't seem to want to switch to it. It Switches to style romans ok but still stays the old font.

 

Is there anyway I can do like a bylayer on the text so it will change to font style romans?

 

Cheers

The attached lisp file and dcl file will work to strip the mtext of formating, use it on a copy of your drawing first to make sure it doesn't strip too much. The .dcl file has to be in your search path defined in autocad. Then you should be able to change the font in the text style dialog to get to Romans.

stripmtext.zip

The attached lisp file and dcl file will work to strip the mtext of formating, use it on a copy of your drawing first to make sure it doesn't strip too much. The .dcl file has to be in your search path defined in autocad. Then you should be able to change the font in the text style dialog to get to Romans.

Do you think that will fix his problem? I mean his trouble is converting the current text to a new font style.

Do you think that will fix his problem? I mean his trouble is converting the current text to a new font style.

Yes. It sounds as though the OP has MText objects and the font style is embedded in there. The stripmtext will get rid of that formatting allowing the change in text style to work.

Select text, style, go from there, what's the problem?

Select text, style, go from there, what's the problem?

I don't get what you are saying here...lol