Text confusion

Annotative Text

In one of my earlier article with the title “ Text size confusion” I had given a method by which one can ensure that the height of printed text is correct on paper. In other words, the printed text is of the desired size , not to big to be irritating or not to small so as to be unreadable. The method was a simple one , for a layman or for new user of autocad. However if one is familiar with the “TEXT STYLE” command , then the problem can be solved very easily or in fact there will not be any problem.
The concept of annotative text should be used for the purpose. Here either

1. You are sure of the scale at which the drawing is going to be printed
2. You are going to use viewports and layouts for printing.

1) The Annotative Scale should be defined in Text Style dialog box. Where you can attach the “annotative” property to the text. In that case there will option available for setting the “Paper Text Height”, which is the height of the text when the drawing is printed at the desired scale.

Use annotative text for notes and labels in your drawing. You create annotative text by using an annotative text style, which sets the height of the text on the paper.

The current annotation scale automatically determines the display size of the text in model space or paper space viewports.

For example, you want text to display at a height of 3/16" on the paper, so you can define a text style to have a paper height of 3/16". When you add text to a viewport that has a scale of 1/2"=1'0", the current annotation scale, which is set to the same scale as the viewport’s, automatically scales the text to display appropriately at 4.5".

....to be continued