Need help with routine to replace text in several drawings.

[gbaker]

We have several drawings that someone had created a "special" text style for. Now, we want to convert all of this text to a Unicode format to make the drawings more universal and easier to work with. I am totally new to LISP and could use some help on how to get this done.

[alanjt]

We have several drawings that someone had created a "special" text style for. Now, we want to convert all of this text to a Unicode format to make the drawings more universal and easier to work with. I am totally new to LISP and could use some help on how to get this done.

if you just want to change the properties of the created textstyle, it will be beyond easy, you just recreate the text style in each drawing (very simple).
this will create/change the textstyle "NOTES" using arialn.ttf (arial narrow) font.
just type in -style and follow the prompts to get your code right.

(command "-style" "NOTES" "ARIALN.TTF" "0.0" "1.0""0" "N" "N")

if you want to change all text to a a different text style, you just select all text of the specified text style and change it.
for instance, this would select all text and mtext in a drawing with 'Standard' textstyle:

(ssget "_X" '((0 . "TEXT,MTEXT")(7 . "Standard")))