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<woodyman> wrote in messageI
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have old drawings that were setup by different contracted companies. In some
of these old drawings I look at the text and where there should be fractions
there is now either a question mark or a box with the " symbol after it. If I
pick on the test and try to edit it the text will be something like %%138 or
%%142 or something similar instead of the fraction it is suppose to be. If I
had the correct FONT on my computer I don't think I would have a problem but I
tried to run a lisp file on the web to globally change text from one style to
another and it works on everything but a few blocks that have this obscure
text style tied to it. I'm thinking that if I had a lisp file that did a
find/replace and I know what the conversion factor was (I'm guessing here but
%%138 = 1/2 and %%142 = 3/4" etc.) then I could run the lisp everytime I have
?'s or blocks on my drawing and fix the problem. I'm not a lisp programmer and
I was wondering if anyone has a way to fix this problem. The problem is in a
lot of our files and I want to find a quick way to fix this. Also, does anyone
know the conversion that ACAD does that turns %%138 into whatever number
(fraction?) it is suppose to be? Thanks in advance...