Fonts showing up differently in Revit 2017

[dsw98]

I just upgraded to Revit 2017 and now some of my fonts are now showing differently. (see attached pic) My solution at this point is to actually change the "size" of the fonts. But is there a better way to fix this? Or is there a reason it's doing this?
Thanks

[CAtDiva]

The way text is treated in 2017 has changed drastically ... here's a couple posts that might help:

http://revitoped.blogspot.com/2016/04/revit-2017-upgrading-text-warning.html.
http://revitoped.blogspot.com/2016/04/revit-2017-text-editor-features.html

[dsw98]

so the only way to fix this is to manually go in and adjust the text like I have been then? Well won't that be fun with 100's of projects :/

[CAtDiva]

so the only way to fix this is to manually go in and adjust the text like I have been then? Well won't that be fun with 100's of projects :/

Yes and no ... hopefully most of your text is in families (like a titleblock family as shown in your original image) - update the family, then reload into projects as necessary. Depending on your workflow, this might be an all at once activity or upgrade as you go. You could also look into outsourcing that task if you have no one in-house to assign it to. I think there also might be some tools out there to batch upgrade families.

[dsw98]

yes, luckily most of the issues are in my Families of Title Blocks. Only a few of my actual text styles have been affected. But still no less frustrating. Gotta love Programmers. Bless their little hearts.

[CAtDiva]

yes, luckily most of the issues are in my Families of Title Blocks. Only a few of my actual text styles have been affected. But still no less frustrating. Gotta love Programmers. Bless their little hearts.

Well, in this particular case, the programmers were addressing a long-time complaint regarding text formatting ... so to some degree, it's not their fault the solution wreaks havoc on existing projects.

[DaveP]

And it's not that the 2017 update "broke" the text.
It was actually "broken" since Revit was a baby and now it's fixed.
They way Revit measured text in it's early days was different and incompatible with other programs.
Also, because of the way it was measured, different fonts with the same size were not the same height.
Now it's the same as most other programs and consistent across fonts.
Unfortunately, we've been using the "broken" version for the last 10 years.

[david_peterson]

And it's not that the 2017 update "broke" the text.
It was actually "broken" since Revit was a baby and now it's fixed.
They way Revit measured text in it's early days was different and incompatible with other programs.
Also, because of the way it was measured, different fonts with the same size were not the same height.
Now it's the same as most other programs and consistent across fonts.
Unfortunately, we've been using the "broken" version for the last 10 years.
This all depends on how you look at it.
The complaint was that their text editor sucked. The other issue, was dealing with converting Revit Text to Autocad text.
As you mention it was "Broken". Well not really Broken, how it sized and handled fonts wasn't the same exact formulas as Autocad (From my understanding)
So when the "Added more functionality to their text editor, to make it act like Mtext into Autocad", they "Fixed the glitch".
Well this does cause many issues for many people. So the word to the wise was, don't upgrade to 2017 unless you have to.
For the most part i think if you were using Revits "Standard" Arial Font, you shouldn't have to much of an issue.