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bjohns
2007-08-24, 05:58 PM
Anyone know if there is a width Factor Control for Dims like there is for Text? Unless I am mistaken the Dim Text does not use the same controls as Text (meaning- change the controls for the text it will automatically change for the Dims like in AutoCAD).

Thanks,
Brian

dhurtubise
2007-08-24, 07:03 PM
You are right, there is no control for that in dimension.

bjohns
2007-08-24, 11:46 PM
Bah,,, was afraid of that. Seems like there should be.

thanks

Tom Phillips
2007-10-03, 12:32 PM
Would a narrow type font work?

jtobin.68416
2007-10-04, 02:39 AM
We went with the the Narrow Arial font as our standard for this reason. The width factor, when applied, seemed to produce 'muddy' text when printed

We did a test with: Arial; Arial set to 0.85; and the Arial Narrow font.
We went for a narrow version of the font. Works much better.

John Tobin