Text Settings

Text Style Settings

You can open and modify a text style's settings using the icon to the right of the text style name.

Font: All fonts installed on the computer under Windows are offered.

Font Style: A font can be displayed in different styles. The options available are 'Normal', 'Bold', 'Italic' and 'Bold-Italic'.

Font Height: The font height is entered in the unit configured in the program. It is measured on paper and therefore remains the same size regardless of the scale used.

Underlined: Texts can be displayed underlined.

Line Height: Line height determines the spacing between lines in multi-line texts. The spacing is calculated as line height minus font height.

Align Texts According to Standard: With the 'Yes' option, texts are always automatically aligned so they are readable from the bottom or from the right. This prevents texts from appearing upside down or readable from the left. With the 'No' option, texts are displayed on the drawing exactly as entered. This allows entering texts that must be read from the top or from the left.

Texts Interrupt Lines: In the properties of the drawing windows you can specify whether texts interrupt lines and hatchings to improve readability of the drawing. Sometimes it is helpful to override this global window setting for a single text. Therefore this option exists in the text style. It can also be changed for an individual text via the 'Modify' function without changing the text style itself.

With the 'Automatic' option, the drawing window setting is adopted. With the 'Always' option the text always interrupts lines and hatchings regardless of the setting in the text window. The 'Never' option never interrupts lines and hatchings.

Color set: The color in which texts should be displayed on screen and on paper. If the color 'FROM LAYER' is used, texts receive the color of the current layer (see example above). The button at the right edge of the field opens the dialog box where you can define custom color sets.

Create Frame: Texts and labels have always been able to receive a rectangular frame. Circular frames have now been added. For rectangular frames, the line weights continue to be defined at the lower right of the dialog box.

Line Weight for Circle: Here you specify the line weight for circular frames.

Diameter: Here you enter the diameter or choose 'automatic'. With this option a suitably sized circle is always generated automatically that just fully encloses the text.

Table Columns:

In the text style you can configure a table using the table columns. If you only need this table once and do not want to create a dedicated text style for it, you can also 'modify' a text and make this setting for a specific text on the drawing.

When you have created a text style with columns, you can use the Tab key in the input for multi-line texts to jump from one column to the next. You can also paste texts with tabs from other programs (e.g., from WinWord). The tabs are then automatically interpreted as jumps to the next column. The following settings are possible:

Orientation: For each column you can set whether the content should be left-aligned, centered, right-aligned or decimal. The 'decimal' option means the content is right-aligned, but the decimal separators of numbers are aligned vertically.

Column Width: Each column can be assigned a width. There are three different options:

Smaller (<): With the 'smaller' option the column will be at most as wide as entered. If the widest value entered in this column is smaller, the column will be correspondingly smaller.

Equal (=): With the 'equal' option the column will be exactly as wide as entered. It does not matter how wide the text or value entered in this column is. If the content is narrower, 'space' remains in the column. If the content is wider, it will overflow the column.

Larger (>): With the 'larger' option the column will be at least as wide as entered. If the column content is narrower, space again remains in the column. If the entered content is wider, the column automatically becomes wider. It will then always be as wide as the widest content.

Total Table Width: This field provides a sum of the entered table widths for verification.

Text-Column Spacing: If this value is 0.000, the column contents are written directly to the column boundary. This usually does not look good, as if the text has been squeezed into the table. With the 'Text-Column Spacing' you can specify a margin around the text. The space available for the text within the column then becomes smaller and the rows become taller.

Line Weights: With a line weight of 0.000 no lines are drawn. If you enter a line weight, you can add lines to the table. We distinguish here the line weights for: outer frame, first row, remaining rows and the columns.