Line in Front of Annotation PDF print

[damo3]

Hi All, 

I have a line based generic family, with a nested annotation family for text. The text has opaque background set, so the text sits over part of the line which cannot be seen behind the text. 

I insert the family and it works visually. Text hides the portion of line behind it. However, when i print to PDF, the line is visible and strikes through the text. 

Is this a glitch or something regarding annotation families in generic model families? 

Thanks for any help in advance.

p.s. I'm concerned with why opaque background text doesn't hide the line its over when in a family, not so much the purpose of the family which is simply an example to explain this unusual behaviour. 

[damo3]

Update: Nevermind, I worked it out. The nested text family needs to be made 'shared'. Then it conceals the line both in Revit and when printed to PDF. 

However, in making the text shared, it scales down very small, about x10 times smaller. I need to make the text size 30, to be equivalent size to a text in the project that is 3mm. Very unusual. So new question, anyone know why this is happening? I don't quite understand why or what is happening with that. unusual.

I can replicate this. Very simple to replicate, simply nest a generic text family onto a detail family. load it into a project. now go back and change the text to shared and update the detail family, reload into project and the text shrinks by approx scale less x10. 

[Anonymous]

Dude, lifesaver! I was starting to looking into a masking region with a calculated width and all sorts of shenanigans. Now i can actually go home!