Unbold text appearing bold

[Anonymous]

All I want is normal text but Autocad decides my text must shout from the top of the roof their value. I've tried all the stuff like - match properties, no ctb, text editing, by layer and even retyping. Please help me get out of this problem.

[imadHabash]

Hi and Welcome to AutoCAD Forum,

please attache your CAD file here and mark the text related ?

[Kent1Cooper]

In case this might be your issue, I have found that .TTF fonts, when used at a width factor other than 1, often look bolder on-screen, but don't plot that way.

If that's not the cause, I agree that a sample and/or some screenshots would help.  Are you talking about .SHX or .TTF fonts, or both?  Is it happening in plain Text, or Mtext, or Attributes, or Dimension text, or all of them?  In Mtext, is there internal formatting?  Etc.

[pendean]

Is your TTF font Mtext at a Z height other than 0.00?

[Anonymous]

How to check z height....I don't see it in properties

[Anonymous]

Attaching screencast here ...I dont see  the said position

[Anonymous]

As advised in a later suggestion below, I've changed the z position of all the texts to zero because of which they appear normal on screen but while printing, they still are bold. Sorry for the bad print, the paper got jam. 

[Kent1Cooper]

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@Anonymous wrote:
How to check z height....I don't see it in properties

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But I would expect that to effect [as does non-1 width factor] what it looks like on-screen, but not to make a difference in plotted weight.

Are those parts really of the same color as the ones that plot lighter?  Could they be some dark grey or the darkest end of the range of some other color, that looks black on-screen, but isn't really, and is of a color with a different plotting weight?  That could only be the cause if it's in a .SHX font, but it looks more like a .TTF font in your images, so that may not explain it.

[Anonymous]

Yes, it is .TTF font everwhere! The color is same everywhere. The plot style in 'none'.

[Anonymous]

In my case i checked everything (z levels, layer manager, lineweights, text styles ) and everything was ok. I tried to navigate in 3d from the cube (tab view-> view cube) and when i pressed top view in the cube the text was fixed. It seems it was a matter of appearance of the text by autocad and there wasn't any real problem. Hope it helps.

[Anonymous]

TRY USING COMMAND "LWDISPLAY" AND TURN IT OFF

[pendean]

@Anonymous

1) you are replying to a 3-year old post.

2) LWDISPLAY has no effect on TTF fonts if you id not know before today. The issue is their text is not a Z=0 as noted in message #8 above.