AutoCAD 2008 rotated true type Text does not appear smooth

[Metalloy]

Hi,

I've just installed 2008 and noticed that any TT font text (or attribute) rotated to any angle other than 0 deg. apprears very harsh (not-smoothed). This is in complete contrast with 2006 or 2007 which perfectly smooth out text at any angle.

I have attached screenshots.

Has anyone faced the same symptom and found a resolution ?

Thanks

[jaberwok]

Does it affect plotted output?

[Metalloy]

NO. The plotted outputs look normal. Especially that I set TEXTQLTY to 100.

[jaberwok]

I'd say that's all that matters.
There was an earlier release (2000, 2000i ?) where all TT text appeared green on-screen if the rotation angle was off of zero degrees.
:screwy:

but they fixed that.

[Metalloy]

That's it ?

[BrenBren]

That's it ?AutoCAD 2008 just came out, many people don't have it yet. You may get a better answer later.

[Augi Doggie]

NO. The plotted outputs look normal. Especially that I set TEXTQLTY to 100.
This sounds like a Display setting to me. Have you checked in the Windows font smoothing settings?

if you turn font smoothing off, it may improve things.

[Metalloy]

Thanks Ken. But unfortunately its not a display setting, for two reasons : a) horizontal text appears perfectly smoothed, and b) when I open the same drawing with 2007 or 2006 the rotated text appears perfectly smooth (and without changing any display settings).

Second and most important :

I doscovered that this problem has a specific condition for appearing (which makes me convinced that it is a code bug in the 2008). Not ALL rotated text shows the symptom : it is specifically TT font text IN A BLOCK WHICH HAS ATTRIBUTES. Rotated text under any other condition appears perfectly normal.

[jaberwok]

Does this (http://www.cadinfo.net/editorial/TTFacad.htm) appear related?

[Metalloy]

Yes. But the really annoying thing is that 2007 did not suffer the same "bug" ... Did you see the screens that I attached ?

Thanks John.

[sinc]

Hmmm....

We've been toying with the idea of shifting to TT fonts around here, but we're still hesitant. This problem doesn't inspire confidence...

We typically try to make it so that no text gets chopped-off by a viewport, under any circumstances, so the one issue mentioned in the article probably wouldn't bother us. But we're worried by that statement about TT text that doesn't have Z=0 causes drawings to slow down. In Civil-3D, we have LOTS of text that ends up with Z not equal to zero, from point labels to contour elevations to custom linetypes that contain text. So if TT fonts that have Z values slow down drawings, they sound like something we still want to avoid.