happyunited Posted August 4, 2009 Posted August 4, 2009 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 Quote
dbroada Posted August 4, 2009 Posted August 4, 2009 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. Quote
CADMASTER1128 Posted August 4, 2009 Posted August 4, 2009 I am confused about the attached drawing. What text do you want to use? Quote
happyunited Posted August 4, 2009 Author Posted August 4, 2009 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. Quote
CADMASTER1128 Posted August 4, 2009 Posted August 4, 2009 Are you highlighting the text? I make that mistake to. And I was able to change it over here on my side. Quote
dbroada Posted August 4, 2009 Posted August 4, 2009 just in case I have missed the point, you expect the text on the right to look like the text on the left. Quote
CADMASTER1128 Posted August 4, 2009 Posted August 4, 2009 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 Quote
dbroada Posted August 4, 2009 Posted August 4, 2009 so how did you get it to lose the Ariel font embedded in the contents? Quote
happyunited Posted August 4, 2009 Author Posted August 4, 2009 so how did you get it to lose the Ariel font embedded in the contents? That's what I want to know too! Quote
CADMASTER1128 Posted August 4, 2009 Posted August 4, 2009 I highlighted the text and choose the style. Just like I normally do. Quote
happyunited Posted August 4, 2009 Author Posted August 4, 2009 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 Quote
dbroada Posted August 4, 2009 Posted August 4, 2009 maybe its something to do with Architecture, I can't get it to work in plain 2008 Quote
CADMASTER1128 Posted August 4, 2009 Posted August 4, 2009 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? Quote
bonehead411 Posted August 4, 2009 Posted August 4, 2009 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. Quote
dbroada Posted August 4, 2009 Posted August 4, 2009 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. Quote
rkent Posted August 4, 2009 Posted August 4, 2009 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 Quote
CADMASTER1128 Posted August 4, 2009 Posted August 4, 2009 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. Quote
rkent Posted August 4, 2009 Posted August 4, 2009 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. Quote
Tankman Posted August 4, 2009 Posted August 4, 2009 Select text, style, go from there, what's the problem? Quote
CADMASTER1128 Posted August 4, 2009 Posted August 4, 2009 Select text, style, go from there, what's the problem? I don't get what you are saying here...lol Quote
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