How to update text height of all text items of a certain style?
Changing the default text height of 'Standard' via STYLE does only affect new but not existing 'Standard' text.
That is pretty disturbing as changes to other text properties via STYLE behave as expected.
How do I get all text items of a certain style reliably updated?
(using BricsCad Platinum (Trial) V17.2.14 (x64) on Debian GNU/Linux 9.3 (stretch) 64-bit as BricsCad V18 seems not yet to be available for Linux)
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Robt, thank you for your hint, though the issue is with STYLE and an inconsistent behaviour when changing a predefined text style. Such change should affect all instances the same way.
I am following "Inside BricsCAD V18" by Ralph Grabowski where changing a text style is described at page 201–203.
But regarding text size, it is not working that way, neither with my file nor with the sample file of the tutorial.
So, it could be a bug, couldn't it?0 -
Without investigating an actual example drawing which doesn't behave as expected, it is hard to say why some texts don't change after modifying their text style. Texts can contain inline directives to override and change font, text height, color, ...
If you think you found a bug, or if you want a BricsCAD support analyst to have a look, please don't hesitate to file a support request.
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The behavior the OP describes is standard. The text height in the text style only governs the creation of new text entities. Existing texts can have (and be changed to) any height.
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@ifr said:
I am following "Inside BricsCAD V18" by Ralph Grabowski where changing a text style is described at page 201–203.You misunderstood Ralph's description. He wrote : "... From now on, all text you place uses the Times New Roman font and is 0.75m tall ", which clearly means that the new text height is applied to newly created text entities only.
Use the Structure panel to select text entities using style and text height as criteria. In the attached image you see how the Structure Tree is configured and the result in the Structure tree: text entities are listed by text style and height, which makes it easy to select them and modify the text height in the Properties panel.
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Thank you for all your clarifications. I am now able to modify the text height of all MTEXT items consistently. But simple TEXT items seem to be immune. So, will just avoid them for the time being.
Was indeed misled by Ralph's description at page 203 as he writes a line earlier "3. Click X to close the dialog box. Notice that the House text changes immediately to the new font". I assumed that a change of any text style property would have immediate effect which is in fact the case except for text height. Quite a surprise in terms of a style.
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