cadam Posted June 2, 2003 Share Posted June 2, 2003 We use autocad 2000i in our office and the main font used in our drawing is romanS. But when I use mtext editor the text is so faint that I can't read it! It only seems to be a problem on my pc. Other fonts like ariel are veiwed ok. Can you help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyposmurf Posted June 2, 2003 Share Posted June 2, 2003 Strange, I guess you've tried the obvious option and reinstalled the font have you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadam Posted June 2, 2003 Author Share Posted June 2, 2003 Yes, I've done that and nothing changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyposmurf Posted June 9, 2003 Share Posted June 9, 2003 You might be able to fix this problem by turning off the Font smoothing option in Windows. The option is in the Display area of the Control Panel. Something else it might be is the colours in your display properties.Go to Display properties-Settings-Colors,make sure its at least 256 colors.You may have already tried this as its quite basic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CADTutor Posted June 9, 2003 Share Posted June 9, 2003 I think Hyposmurf has hit the nail on the head and that Windows font smoothing is to blame, see below: Windows font smoothing turned on Windows font smoothing turned off Although TTF fonts look OK in both states, the AutoCAD SHX fonts almost fade out with font smoothing turned on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadam Posted June 10, 2003 Author Share Posted June 10, 2003 Thanks guys!! You've cracked it Turned off Windows font smoothing and it worked, brilliant. Thanks again Cadam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest waicool Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 In autocad 2004, i cant see text in the window of the text editor. i know it is there because i ran the list command and saw the text there. i tried everything in these posts and finally realized the font file might be corrupt. I copied the font file from a backup drive and replaced the font file located in the program files section of my pc. Replacing the font file solved the problem. I can now see text in the window of the text editor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock'n'roll Draughtsman Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Man I love this forum. That text thing's been bugging me forever. I was trying to find something inside Autocad to fix it. But it was Window' fault all along! Damn Microsoft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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