topic Re: Text Problem in Modeling

Text Problem

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:11:27 GMT

Hi, when i select my text height, to make it bigger for titles etc, it gets thicker also, i want it larger but thinner, how can i achieve this? thanks.

Re: Text Problem

TomWaltz — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:15:42 GMT

I think most Archicad Fonts are TrueType or OpenType, so they act like a font in any other program. Unfortunately, that means that the height of the font and the stroke thickness are related.

Re: Text Problem

Link — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:38:48 GMT

Abode wrote:
Hi, when i select my text height, to make it bigger for titles etc, it gets thicker also, i want it larger but thinner, how can i achieve this? thanks.

You can change the text's 'Width Factor' to as low as 50% (and as high as 1000%).

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Text Problem

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:52:59 GMT

nar nar nar, im talking about the thickness of the actual line makeing the text, not the actual width of the text as one.

Cheers,
Abode

Re: Text Problem

Link — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:59:42 GMT

Abode wrote:
nar nar nar, im talking about the thickness of the actual line makeing the text, not the actual width of the text as one.

How eloquent.

As Tom says, it's a true type font. So you're SOL. Maybe consider a thinner font.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Text Problem

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:02:02 GMT

got any ideas for a thinner font than arial?

cheers,
Abode

Re: Text Problem

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:06:11 GMT

Eloquence (from Latin eloquentia) is fluent, forcible, elegant or persuasive speaking in public. It is primarily the power of expressing strong emotions in striking and appropriate language, thereby producing conviction or persuasion. The term is also used for writing in a fluent style.

So, eloquent i am 😉

Re: Text Problem

Link — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:07:45 GMT

Abode wrote:
got any ideas for a thinner font than arial?

cheers,
Abode

Yep - Google and the tiniest amount of your own effort.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Text Problem

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:10:44 GMT

oh well cheers, thanks for you effort cheers cheers cheers.

Cheers,
Abode

Re: Text Problem

Link — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:21:22 GMT

Abode wrote:
Eloquence (from Latin eloquentia) is fluent, forcible, elegant or persuasive speaking in public. It is primarily the power of expressing strong emotions in striking and appropriate language, thereby producing conviction or persuasion. The term is also used for writing in a fluent style.

See - you're putting Google to good use already!

Good luck with the font.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Text Problem

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:22:27 GMT

wiki mate wiki, cheers

Cheers,
Abode

Re: Text Problem

Dwight — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:00:12 GMT

Abode wrote:
Hi, when i select my text height, to make it bigger for titles etc, it gets thicker also, i want it larger but thinner, how can i achieve this? thanks.

Other than reverting to a primitive stick font - how we did it in the past with pen plotters - you could consider a complex modern font Like Warnock Pro. This font has numerous variations within the same family - way more than the old days with light, regular and bold - to adapt the font to conditions like titles, captions, etc.

But, let me encourage you to abandon your archaic ways and get modern - find different fonts for each taxt task. Your work will become more readable if you combine italic, regular and bold fonts - even from different type faces.

As for a thinner font than Arial: most modern fonts have a light condensed version that is as light as it gets.

Re: Text Problem

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:35:22 GMT

Dwight wrote:
As for a thinner font than Arial: most modern fonts have a light condensed version that is as light as it gets.

Futura Light Condensed is a nice one. But better on modernist projects than it is for more more traditional (pre-Bauhaus) styles of architecture.