topic Re: Dimension fonts not correctly aligned. Cut off. Archicad 26 - lastest update in Documentation

Dimension fonts not correctly aligned. Cut off. Archicad 26 build 5002

psmith — Fri, 26 May 2023 01:55:10 GMT

We recently applied the lastest Archicad 26 Update.. 5002 and have noticed that the alignment of all dimension text is below the dimension line and cut off.

It is only the case with certain fonts (including our standard font).When I change the font to arial the is no problem.

Changing font to arial.

is not a problem with other font.

Re: Dimension fonts not correctly aligned. Cut off. Archicad 26 - lastest update

Barry Kelly — Thu, 25 May 2023 08:20:18 GMT

What is your standard dimension font?

Barry.

Re: Dimension fonts not correctly aligned. Cut off. Archicad 26 - lastest update

psmith — Thu, 25 May 2023 21:10:26 GMT

DINOffc.ttf

Re: Dimension fonts not correctly aligned. Cut off. Archicad 26 - lastest update

Barry Kelly — Fri, 26 May 2023 01:09:14 GMT

I don't have that particular font.

But I did try with others and found there is a problem with some fonts.

I would consider this a bug.

I know Graphisoft change the font engine (or what ever you call it) in 26.

This broke text positioning when you opened older version files in 26.

That was fixed in update 5002, and from what I have tested seems to be fine now.

But I was not looking at all fonts in dimensions.

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Archicad-26-Update-4004-Preview-Antialising-BUG/m-p/357954/highlight/true#M162212

I will report this as a bug to tech support.

You should also do the same by reporting it through your local Archicad support.

Barry.

Re: Dimension fonts not correctly aligned. Cut off. Archicad 26 - lastest update

Martin Jules — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 20:59:45 GMT

This text issue has not been resolved yet from my part in AC 26 build number 5002:

Re: Dimension fonts not correctly aligned. Cut off. Archicad 26 - lastest update

Barry Kelly — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 02:28:06 GMT

Totally different problem to the text moving.

Yours is being cut off.

What is the screen scaling factor in your operating system settings?

Barry.

Re: Dimension fonts not correctly aligned. Cut off. Archicad 26 - lastest update

Martin Jules — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 03:46:41 GMT

Here's my scaling factor:

Re: Dimension fonts not correctly aligned. Cut off. Archicad 26 - lastest update

Barry Kelly — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 04:06:41 GMT

Just as I suspected - 125%.

Archicad does not like 125% scaling factor.

Set it to 100% - you may need to restart Archicad (or even the machine) to see the effect.

You have a standard resolution of 1920 x 1080.

If you have a tiny display and need it enlarged, you will be better of with a scaling factor of 100% and set your resolution to a smaller value.

Of course this will affect all programs.

So if you like it like this for everything else (i,e you must have 125%), you can go into the properties of the Archicad.exe program file, and tell it to ignore display scaling.

Barry.

Re: Dimension fonts not correctly aligned. Cut off. Archicad 26 - lastest update

Martin Jules — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 12:28:02 GMT

ArchiCAD 26 5002 is too problematic. I can't use it on my computers unfortunately.

Re: Dimension fonts not correctly aligned. Cut off. Archicad 26 - lastest update

Barry Kelly — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 12:58:42 GMT

@Martin Jules wrote:

ArchiCAD 26 5002 is too problematic. I can't use it on my computers unfortunately.

If you have amended your system scaling and you are having other issues, please feel free to start a separate post for each problem, or follow on in an existing post relating to that problem.

I won't say there are no problems at all, but it shouldn't be 'too problematic'.

Barry.

Re: Dimension fonts not correctly aligned. Cut off. Archicad 26 build 5002

Norbert Kucsma — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 11:12:29 GMT

Hi All,

Thank you for bringing up these topics.

We've released Archicad 26 Update 3 (50xx) with a number of bug fixes, some of which address text-font handling aspects. The first issue described in this thread about the dimension values covering and overlapping the dimension lines is a new defect, which we aim to solve in the next update (60xx).
As a workaround, please switch to WordCompatible mode, which can be activated in the registry (change this value to 1):
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\GRAPHISOFT\ARCHICAD\Archicad XX\Textengine\WordCompatibleMode

Barry is correct about the second issue of this post. It is a different error when the text is cut off and this can happen on a 4K resolution display, with the text scaling set above 100%.
We are also aware of this bug and plan to fix it in the next update (60xx).

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Kind regards,

Norbert Kucsma
Technical Support Engineer