topic Re: Large Font when editing text box in AutoCAD Forum

Large Font when editing text box

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 07:39:50 GMT

Hi,

How do I fix this issue that I want to edit the font size (to 250; as I have a very large limits) and when I find the right size on the layout, every-time I try to edit, it just pops massively..

attachment:

q1 before I click on the text box

q2 after I click on the text box

both text size is 250

Re: Large Font when editing text box

shabbar — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 08:21:14 GMT

hi.. try this,,

double click the text to edit and right click on it (selected colored area) and select Editor Settings on the popup menu and select Always Display as WYSIWYG

Re: Large Font when editing text box

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 11:14:09 GMT

works!

Re: Large Font when editing text box

pmasonx — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 13:14:43 GMT

wysiwyg is a nice workaround.

but, with wysiwyg turned off, can someone explain what setting determines how big the text is expanded while editing? The problem is that sometimes one word fills the screen, and sometimes a paragraph fills the screen. thanks!

Re: Large Font when editing text box

pmasonx — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 13:48:51 GMT

i have observed that the inconsistency of text expansion occurs when the "text height" property is different from the text formatting font size. seems these should be one and the same but they're not. when they are the same the text expansion results in a consistent expansion font size. when they are different the text expansion uses the property "text height" to determine this expansion multiplier.

So in my case, two texts look identical - they have the same text editor font size, but one has "property - text height" of 0.1 and the second has a "property - text height" of 0.2 -- although they appear the same in model space and plot the same, their "property - text heights" are different .. Then when double-clicking on the text to edit it, Autocad thinks that a larger multiplier is needed for the text with the 0.1 "property text height" and expands it twice as much as when double-clicking on the text with 0.2 "property text height"

Re: Large Font when editing text box

lkellyQBAAX — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 20:37:34 GMT

I believe this issue arises when you have annotative text and the annotative scale of your text is different than the annotative scale of your drawing. If you edit the annotative scale of the text in properties to match that of the drawing/current view (lower right hand corner, carrot to adjust) or vice versa, you should be good to go.

Re: Large Font when editing text box

sb42783 — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:16:18 GMT

Thanks. This solved the same problem for me, too.