Removing Autosizing of Text

[ATS1211]

Hi all,

 

I seem to be having an issue that may be intuitive to someone on here; I have several text boxes in my drawing with two grips. When you drag either grip, it re-sizes the text, it will also not allow you to enter a new size in the properties box. I can't convert them to mtext since the position will change; I was wondering if anyone knew how to remove one of the two grips or another way, so that I can change the text height in the properties.

 

Worst comes to worst, I'll write a LISP routine to move the top grip (they're all vertically orientated) by a set amount to re-size the text; but, I figured one of you may have a better suggestion!

 

Thanks

[Dadgad]

Try this, or one of Lee Mac's other text lisps http://www.lee-mac.com/copytext.html .

Lots of great stuff on Lee's site.

 

Thanks Lee!

[ATS1211]

Dadgad,

 

Thanks for the suggestion, but not exactly what I need.

 

It's like the text height is constrained by the location of the two grips; normal text only has one grip, that's what I need to convert to.

 

It's very strange.

[Dadgad]

I trust you are aware that your text size is controlled by the TEXTSIZE system variable, or possibly by your TEXTSTYLE system variable

by default, as described in the image?

[Dadgad]

Have you tried the JUSTIFYTEXT command?

[rkent]

The single line text has a justification of ALIGN. You can select it and in properties change its justification to something else.

[SLW210]

Can you post an example of the text?

[Dadgad]

The single line text has a justification of ALIGN. You can select it and in properties change its justification to something else.

 

Nice one rkent, I've never used that before.

 

There is one more system variable which you might like to consider, although I think your immediate problem has been taken care of by rkent.

[ATS1211]

rkent,

 

That is exactly what I was looking for, it's one of those things that I was staring at the whole time but never thought to change.

 

Since they're all rotated by 90 and changing the justification removes that value and re-sizes them; I just need to write a LISP routine to change that back and set the correct height.

 

Thanks for the help!

[rkent]

Thanks. It has been around since r4 (1983) but I guess most don't need it for working drawings. I have only used it a time or two for posters and the like.