topic Re: Text bug or settings problem ? in Documentation

Text bug or settings problem ? Font size change on paste

Cosmin Ghioanca — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:29:17 GMT

Hello guys. Got an annoying problem here. I copy text from one box and I paste it into a different one. No big deal, but this one changes font size after it was pasted into the second box. The second size is arbitrary, usually at a higher size. For example the original font size is 1,500 mm and after it was pasted goes to 1,5796 mm.

PS I've noticed that it is influenced by the zoom. Do you know where can I look into making some changes. I need the program to preserve the original settings.

Thank you all and have a nice one.

Re: Text bug or settings problem ?

RandyC — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 14:19:21 GMT

I also notice this - especially with font size in dimension strings , when one dimension of the string will take on a different size.

Re: Text bug or settings problem ?

Barry Kelly — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 01:11:36 GMT

That is bizarre - I would say BUG!

You can pan but don't zoom between pastes.
I tested in 22 and it is doing this weird behaviour.
I checked back in 18 and it seems fine there.

Barry.

Re: Text bug or settings problem ?

Cosmin Ghioanca — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 10:42:25 GMT

Barry wrote:
That is bizarre - I would say BUG!

You can pan but don't zoom between pastes.
I tested in 22 and it is doing this weird behaviour.
I checked back in 18 and it seems fine there.

Barry.

Okay, Barry, yes I got into it on 22 version also. Tanks for time you toked on this one. So, I'm not familiar whit the procedures on the forum. Should I announce the problem, or someone is already doing/done that ? How can I find that out ? I insist on it cause is annoying and it can easily increase time spent on annotate process. Meanwhile I will adopt the copy-paste technique for the hall element and the pan-no zoom for small text parts. But this is medieval and frustrating. Have a nice one.

Re: Text bug or settings problem ?

Barry Kelly — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 01:32:54 GMT

Bugs mentioned here don't automatically get reported.
It is best if you contact your local distributor and report the problem to them through their support system.

I would hope such an obvious bug like this would have been reported already.
I have never noticed it as I have not yet started using 22 productively and would rarely copy text from one text to another.

Sometimes if we are lucky and one of the Graphisoft people are reading this forum, they may take note of it.

Barry.

Re: Text bug or settings problem ?

Daniel Kovacs — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 09:47:13 GMT

Hello Everyone,

Yes, you should always report things like this directly to your local support/reseller, that's the fastest and most direct way. Even if it was reported before, at least they can estimate how widespread an issue is if they get reports from more people.

This is actually something that has been reported to us recently from elsewhere, and it is on our list to fix (fix #252494). We want to fix this before our next updates for ARCHICAD 21 (80xx) and 22 (50xx).

Regards,

Re: Text bug or settings problem ?

Barry Kelly — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 01:29:25 GMT

Thanks Daniel.

Barry.

Re: Text bug or settings problem ?

Barry Kelly — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 01:35:53 GMT

dkovacs wrote:
This is actually something that has been reported to us recently from elsewhere, and it is on our list to fix (fix #252494). We want to fix this before our next updates for ARCHICAD 21 (80xx) and 22 (50xx).

Seems it hasn't been fixed yet in 22 build 6021.

https://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=67922

I would have checked the build release notes for 6001, but I can only get to update 6021.
I see no link to earlier updates.
And when I try updates for earlier versions there is no version 21 or 22 at all.

Barry.

Re: Text bug or settings problem ?

Daniel Kovacs — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 08:18:26 GMT

Hi Barry,

Yes, you are right, it is not fixed yet. As we further investigated the issue, we realized that it is not such an easy fix, because the faulty component affects a lot of different functions (the issue is related to High Resolution Display handling in ARCHICAD). We are still working on finding a solution that is safe to implement. Thank you for the patience in the meantime.

Regarding the website and the previous updates. The Archive Downloads page is a page for the versions no longer supported with updates. ARCHICAD 21, 22 (and soon 23) updates are on the main Update download page. Just navigate to Downloads > Downloads for ARCHICAD > ARCHICAD Updates, and choose the version you are looking for with the drop-down menus.

Regards,

Re: Text bug or settings problem ?

Barry Kelly — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 08:34:25 GMT

Thanks Daniel.

Just out of interest I don't actually have a hi-res monitor.
But I guess you are saying the program is written to allow for hi-res displays which is causing the problem.

Regarding the website, maybe it should say "For earlier versions, please visit the archive downloads page" - rather the earlier downloads.

I now also see the "Show all" button to get earlier build updates - I didn't notice that before.

Thanks again,
Barry.

Re: Text bug or settings problem ?

Erwin Edel — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 09:02:54 GMT

Can confirm I've had similar problems on just regular old HD screens, running windows without any scaling.

As a workaround, opening Notepad, pasting into that, copying and going back to archicad keeps things tidy. (this gets rid of any formatting)

Re: Text bug or settings problem ?

Miha_M — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 09:39:07 GMT

I can report the same behaviour of Archicad 23. I use screen resolution 2560×1440, if that matters.
The text size, if pasted, depends on the changed zoom level.

Re: Text bug or settings problem ?

NicVar15 — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 08:50:09 GMT

I've been waiting with bated breath for the release of ArchiCAD 23 for resolution of this problem. Disappointingly, the problem persists. It's a big issue for us - my office has completely skipped using version 22 because of this issue as it is highly impractical when annotating documentation.

Re: Text bug or settings problem ?

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 14:23:30 GMT

Edit: Solution debunked, had 3rd party software that was assisting without my knowledge.

Re: Text bug or settings problem ?

szepiz — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 12:00:37 GMT

AC24 also has it. Did someone found a better solution then puretext? Thanks

Re: Text bug or settings problem ? Font size change on paste

Anonymous — Sun, 16 May 2021 13:43:32 GMT

I have just found this issue in Archicad 24 too. Is there a solution yet?

Re: Text bug or settings problem ? Font size change on paste

vfrontiers — Sun, 16 May 2021 16:44:23 GMT

Just continuing to struggle with the PASTE issue....

Maybe it can be solved by including something similar to WORD or PAGES...

- Paste and Match Formatting

Where archicad actually forces the existing formatting onto the pasted text...

Re: Text bug or settings problem ? Font size change on paste

Podolsky — Mon, 17 May 2021 06:07:44 GMT

I tried this on Mac - and cannot get the same result. On Mac everything fine. Maybe its specific Windows problem?

Re: Text bug or settings problem ? Font size change on paste

Minh Nguyen — Tue, 18 May 2021 11:10:08 GMT

Dear All,

Thank you very much for your reports regarding this issue!

In the past, we registered this issue in our database, but due to the complexity of it, we could only manage to fix the issue in Archicad 24 Update 3 and Archicad 23 Update 4. It worked well on macOS, however, on Windows, we discovered another hidden bug very similar to this, but the result is still far better comparing to the previous state (instead of a big jump between zoom range, now the size only changes very little).

Of course, it is still not perfect yet, so we registered a new defect (please refer to it as DEF-3928). Fixing it will require a very big amount of resources from the development, so unfortunately I can't promise when it will be finally solved.

I am very sorry for the inconvenience, and thank you very much for your understanding! Please let me know if you have any further questions!

Best regards,
Minh

Re: Text bug or settings problem ? Font size change on paste

Anonymous — Thu, 20 May 2021 03:02:25 GMT

mnguyen wrote:
, but the result is still far better comparing to the previous state (instead of a big jump between zoom range, now the size only changes very little).

I think this is actually a worse situation. At least with a big change it is obvious and I can fix it. With this small variation I am not noticing and I have slight variations throughout the documentation.

Russ