Force text style/font

[donalcommane]

Does anyone know of a way to force a change in text style/font, I receive a lot of drawings where the text style may use Arial or Tahoma fonts but this can only be changed in each individual mtext dialogue box (taking a lot of time) rather than the through a global change in the text style?
Our standard is romans and other fonts on the x-ref make the drawing look amateurish and can obscure detail.
Possibly this is one for the LT wishlist.

[rkmcswain]

If the font is embedded in the MTEXT string, then you will have to remove this formatting. (Edit the MTEXT, select all, right-click, remove formatting)

Once you do that, the MTEXT will respond to font changes that you make to the STYLE.

[jaberwok]

If the font is determined within each text object you really want access to a copy of full acad so you can use stripmtext.lsp.
If not, and the various drawings use a small range of text style names, you can create a blank drawing containing style definitions using the same names and your standard fonts and insert the drawings, one at a time, into the blank drawing and save over the original files. The style definitions in your blank drawing will over-ride the choice of fonts.

[Sideways Phoenix]

i am trying to bring schedules in from excell and when i do the font that was used in excell overrides the text style and i have to go into each cell of the table and clear the formatting. would this "striptext.lsp" work for my problem too or is there an easier way. if i need the striptext.lsp then where would i find it?

Thnak you in advance

[jaberwok]

i am trying to bring schedules in from excell and when i do the font that was used in excell overrides the text style and i have to go into each cell of the table and clear the formatting. would this "striptext.lsp" work for my problem too or is there an easier way. if i need the striptext.lsp then where would i find it?

Thnak you in advance

According to the authors, it works in tables but, if you are using LT, you can't use lisp programmes without 3rd party add-ons.
You can find it by googling "stripmtext.lsp".

[Norton_cad]

You could saveas a R12 format, and it would convert all mtext to plain text, with no formating.

[jaberwok]

You could saveas a R12 format, and it would convert all mtext to plain text, with no formating.

Good point. ^5

[kent409968]

What is the benefit of formatting in the mtxt string? I have found a bunch of mtxt when listed shows the style as standard but in the mtxt string it has lucida sans. Does it help with portability?

[cadtag]

No, over ride formatting in the mtext string reduces portability.

Probably increases readability though --- adesk's shx fonts are not exactly examples of high quality typography

[Norton_cad]

After saveas r12 select the text to mtext tool then save. This will give your formatting you desire.