dshall Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 ...... geez, am I a dunderhead, thanks to Bill Layman, I learned something today........ <<...>> Scott In case your interested, at the Anno conf call several weeks ago it was brought to my attention that “Rich Text” does not operate the same as Text and I lose the ability to make global changes. I used Rich Text because I could get the leader and text with one click. However, with the info from your confr I started looking and finally found how to change (see attached) from rich text to regular text. I’ll be using Text instead of Rich Text forward. Have a great day. Bill <Text Leader.png> Not sure if the JPEG shows, but if you go to PREFERENCES<APPEARANCE<TEXT and uncheck CREATE RICH TEXT, from now on your text with the auto leader lines will be plain text which means the text can now be controlled via the layers. Rich Text cannot be controlled by layers. If you were to ask me, I think the OOB should be defaulted to using PLAIN TEXT vs RICH TEXT. Nice job Bill Layman, thanks for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumbleChief Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Never knew that was an option. Unchecked it my profile plan as I almost never use Rich text anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Sorry I missed the meeting but I always use rich text except for room labels and macro's, not sure why I would want to switch. I can also put rich text on any layer I want, what am I missing about layer control Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACADuser Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 Wich text do you prefer & why? Text or Rich Text Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevolutionDB Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 Thanks for this tip! I never use rich text; I just don't like the interface of rich text or how it looks on the screen. I always thought the leader line tool was limited to rich text only, so I'm excited to start using it with plain text! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KilgoreTrout Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 You can put rich text on any layer and even have the text change color with the layer color. What you can't do with rich text is control the text using "text styles" like you can with regular text. What you can't do with regular text is have one piece of text that uses different fonts, colors, or sizes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Carrick Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 What you can't do with regular text is have one piece of text that uses different fonts, colors, or sizes. That's exactly why I like Rich Text for Custom Room Labels and similar data display. Basically I can format a "Mini-Page" in a single Rich Text Block. OTOH, Standard Text using Text Styles is perfect for general notation. I like all such thing to be uniform throughout my ConDocs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACADuser Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 You can put rich text on any layer and even have the text change color with the layer color. What you can't do with rich text is control the text using "text styles" like you can with regular text. What you can't do with regular text is have one piece of text that uses different fonts, colors, or sizes. Thanks for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcrump Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Great tip and info from the professionals! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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