topic Re: Text size type in Plotmaker not adjustable? in Modeling

Text size type in Plotmaker not adjustable?

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:10:16 GMT

Im posting this question up for a friend of mine, for some reason his text height under the text settings is measured in fractional inches instead of "Pt".
And Iv'e even tried many combinations under the working units menu under preferences. I'm all out of ideas on how to trouble shoot this.

Note: My friend is on a windows XP platform with AC 9.

Thanks

Re: Text size type in Plotmaker not adjustable?

Link — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:36:39 GMT

That's the only option in the layout environment, because you are essentially using real world measurements. Everything there is 1:1, so there's no need to use Pts. It's only in the modeling environment that you need to use Pts because the views will (typically) be scaled before being placed on a layout.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Text size type in Plotmaker not adjustable?

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:04:02 GMT

Link wrote:
That's the only option in the layout environment, because you are essentially using real world measurements. Everything there is 1:1, so there's no need to use Pts. It's only in the modeling environment that you need to use Pts because the views will (typically) be scaled before being placed on a layout.

Cheers,
Link.

I agree Link, I'll just have to try to exlpain it to my buddy. Just kind of wierd though..in my plotmaker..its measured in Pts ....in my friends plotmaker...its in measured in fractional inches. And I can't seem to figure out where the option settings are, to configure the type of unit to be displayed in the text setting dialog box (Pts, mm etc..) if there is such option settings (and if there isnt...why does it seem to differ from my plotmaker to my buddy's plotmaker).

Re: Text size type in Plotmaker not adjustable?

Link — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:27:39 GMT

Looks like I have completely misled you there, sorry too much time in metric with the INT version. It appears that text can be input using Pts in the layout environment.

What version is your 'buddy' using?

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Text size type in Plotmaker not adjustable?

David Maudlin — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:01:09 GMT

junior wrote:
...for some reason his text height under the text settings is measured in fractional inches instead of "Pt".

Note: My friend is on a windows XP platform with AC 9.

Junior:

In the Text Settings dialog box, in the lower right hand corner under "Scalability" are 2 options: "Scaled" and "Fixed". He needs to select the "Fixed" option to get point size rather than inches.

HTH

David

Re: Text size type in Plotmaker not adjustable?

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:34:24 GMT

David wrote:

Junior:

In the Text Settings dialog box, in the lower right hand corner under "Scalability" are 2 options: "Scaled" and "Fixed". He needs to select the "Fixed" option to get point size rather than inches.

HTH

David

Unbelievable! I never thought that would relate to that setting...but now it makes sense! Thanks so much

Thanks for all the input guys.

Re: Text size type in Plotmaker not adjustable?

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:43:06 GMT

Link wrote:
Looks like I have completely misled you there, sorry too much time in metric with the INT version. It appears that text can be input using Pts in the layout environment.

What version is your 'buddy' using?

Cheers,
Link.

No problem Link, my friend is using the U.S. version...but i guess it doesnt matter in this particuler case right, knowing that the scalability option exist in both versions. It never seizes to amaze me how much is still to be discovered and learned in AC.