topic Text Conundrum in Revit Architecture Forum

Text Conundrum

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:12:29 GMT

Any ideas why the two fonts below appear to be different. They have exactly the same font type parameters, except that one is a label and the other is a text box. The text line on top is a label, Arial font, not bold, 3/32 size, 1.000000 width factor. The text line on the bottom is a text box, Arial Font, not bold, 3/32 size, 1.0000000 width factor.

Re: Text Conundrum

SteveKStafford — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:26:51 GMT

It sure looks like one is Bold and the other isn't... care to post the file?

Re: Text Conundrum

David_W_Koch — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:34:17 GMT

I agree with Steve. In Revit 2014, I created a Generic Annotation family with a label, using 3/32" high Arial, non-bolded, 1.000 width text and loaded it into a project and compared it to a text object using the same specifications and, in my file, they looked identical.

Re: Text Conundrum

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 04:29:09 GMT

How was it formatted? In Revit, the text can be made bold without the type properties being ticked as Bold. When you place text, you have formatting options in the ribbon. You can apply bold formatting to text without effecting the type properties. think of it as instance properties for text.

Perhaps you have bold formatting on?

Re: Text Conundrum

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:39:34 GMT

Thanks for the help damo3. This solution is too simple, but it is exactly what the problem was. The bold text box button in the ribbon was turned on, although when I highlight more than one word, the box button turned off. Apparently Revit doesnt consider spaces to be bold.

Re: Text Conundrum

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:34:01 GMT

Your welcome. Glad it helped.