Text displaying strangely

Text displaying strangely

vitel013
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Text displaying strangely

vitel013
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Hello everyone, I am having trouble with my text and annotations displaying as strange characters. The problem  occurred out of nowhere as I was moving around annotations. I looked online and on the forums for a solution but have found nothing yet. The thread I found on the forums was about a text display problem with the ariel font. I'm using a different font and my text is not overlapping it's just displaying in a very strange format. The more you work on it and zoom in and out of the things the more distorted the text becomes. 

 

I have tried solving it by using the graphicsconfig command and unchecking the boxes but that didn't work. I also tried using regen but it only work for a few seconds before the strange display returns. I also tried auditing and that came with no errors. I tried purging but that also only works for a few seconds. Also, I am using AutoCad LT 2018 product version 0.49.0.0

 

I will also attach some images of what the issue looks like. 

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h_s_walker
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Can you post the drawings, because it looks like those are converted PDFs and sometimes you get text and sometimes you get a solid shape which looks like text, but isn't.

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pendean
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What font are you using exactly?
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vitel013
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@h_s_walker Yes fore sure. I hadn't yet checked out how the problem looks like in paper space but it seems to display fine in paper space. the other two previous images were just screenshots of the drawing in model space. 

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vitel013
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@pendean I am using times new roman. 

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h_s_walker
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We need the drawing not a PDF, but as I said if it's a converted PDF you can have problems with text displaying as shapes and not actual text

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vitel013
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@h_s_walker gotcha, my bad! 

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h_s_walker
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I converted it down so I could have a look and found weird problems with the text it was ghosting outlines of the words. It might be something wrong with that actual drawing. I copied all the items from model space into a new drawing and they look fine.

 

I've attached the drawing and a PDF as well

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@h_s_walker Thank you. It does appear to be that the drawing I was working on somehow became corrupted. When I copied the new files you created onto that original one, the text became erratic again. Now that I remember correctly, before the problem occurred, my cad crashed then I reopened and a few minutes after the issue occurred. 

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h_s_walker
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Run an AUDIT on your file and tell it to fix any errors and see if that helps

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pendean
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That font is called ROMANTIC, style is ROMANTICBOLD, it is not TIMES NEW ROMAN at all. Perhaps you don't have that font, or when you maintain the LT2013 format to the file it is lost?
Why are you saving your files to LT2013 format?

Post a screenshot of your ABOUT command please: RECOVER command reported 3-issues in your file.
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vitel013
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@pendean 

 

You are right. I just checked and there are other fonts being used. So the ROMANTICBOLD is being used for the blue annotations and The room labels on the floor plan are using ARIEL. I mentioned TIMES NEW ROMAN because that's what I was using to label the balcony parts and dimensions.  The floor plan is a drawing that was given to us to use as an underlay for the balcony installs. and the annotations where from a template used to label balcony parts. so there is two separate drawings combined, I'm not sure is that is what caused the problem then? 

 

I usually save files as LT2013 format because I import floor plans into another software (Tekla) to which we have the 2017 version of so it doesn't read the file when I try to import any LT2018 DWGs. I suppose I forgot to change the format when I saved this drawing. 

 

 

 

 

@h_s_walker 

as far as auditing, that seems to not have any effect on font issue. 

 

 

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pendean
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Go into STYLE command and change each and every font option to ARIAL (and/or TIMES ROMAN), and nothing else, see if your issue goes away.

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vitel013
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@pendean I just tried changing it all to TIMES NEW ROMAN but it also didn't resolve the issue. If i copy any other drawing onto that file it will also start experiencing that problem. 

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pendean
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Do this: start GRAPHICSCONFIG command then turn off hardware acceleration. Now restart your PC and test, any change?
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vitel013
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@pendean That seems to have worked for the most part. some of the text will be 'edgy" so I just have to click on it (as if I were going to modify it) and then it's back to normal. The only other issue that remains (and I think it has to do with the cause original issue) is the annotation cursor. Whenever I hover over a a text or dimension, the annotation cursor is not displayed correctly and instead looks like a tiny pair of broken wings, I'm unsure if that has to do with the fact that there might be something wrong with this file. But I feel like for the most part it's back to normal.  

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pendean
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Post a screenshot of your ABOUT command pop-up in LT2018 please.

And as noted by others, you need to abandon this original file and be using one of your own all-working templates with this content in it (and you totally changing your ROMANTIC font to boot).
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pendean
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Why is your Visual Style not set to 2DWIREFRAME? That's probably your real problem, nothing more.
It is set to the unfortunate choice of WIREFRAME now.

 

Turn on UCSICON on all of your files, look for such clues next time you decide to "3D' view your 2D flat file.

 

HTH

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vitel013
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After turning it to 2DWIREFRAME everything displayed normally again. I guess I'm not sure at what point my drawing even rotated in the first place. I will have UCS ICON turned on every time in the the future. Thank you for helping me out. 

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a_teterja
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Thank you.
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