Getting rid of text formatting of mtext

[CAB]

Hedgehog - Yeah, does same thing in any drawing. FYI I'm importing text from a PDF that places the formatting codes in there.

 

CAB - Your STRIPPER does the same thing.?!

 

Which leads me to believe it's an installation problem. This IS a new install of AutoCAD2008 and I DID do a registry clean the other day, so......

I'll do an uninstall and reinstall of AutoCAD and see what happens.

 

Thanks for trying to help. I'll let you know what happens.

 

Gary

Try this revised test routine after you load my lisp.

(defun c:stest(/ esel obj text result)
 (vl-load-com)
 (setq esel (car (entsel "\nSelect Text : ")))
 (setq obj (vlax-ename->vla-object esel)
       text (vla-get-textstring obj))
 
 (setq result (strip_text text "*"))
 )

[gpetty46]

As I suspected, a reinstall of AutoCAD did the trick. StripMtext.lsp works as advertized.

 

CAB - I'll mess around with your routine later when I have a bit more time and let you know what happens. Private mail if you prefer.

 

Thanks both of you for caring so much,

Gary

[oktapod]

Je i madh. Faleminderit.

I usually just explode the mtext. Use match properties to the format I want then recombine the text entities.