ACAD 2005 - TEXT MASKING 2

[SeanSweeney]

I HAVE 100 OR SO SINGLE LINE TEXT OBJECTS IN A DRAWING WHERE IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO READ THEM BECAUSE OF OTHER JUNK. I TRIED TEXT MASK WHICH WORKS BUT ON CONVERSION TO PDF ALL THE MASKS BECOME BLACK, GIVING UNREADABLE TEXT.

IS THERE A WAY TO CONVERT ALL THESE OBJECTS AT ONCE TO MTEXT (NOT EXPRESS TOOLS WHICH LUMPS THEM TOGETHER) SO I CAN USE BACKGROUND TOOL FOR MTEXT, WHICH IS WONDERFUL.

THANKS. SEAN.

 

[loosestring]

I don't know of a way to create mtext out of them other than txt2mtxt which does "lump them together". I've been faced with the same issue and the only way I've found is to convert to mtext and then clean it up manually.

 

[CarlB]

I recently saw a short lisp routine to do this. It basically takes user's selection and runs "txt2mtxt" on 1 text item at a time. Couldn't put my fingers on it but it went something like..........
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(princ "\nType T2M to start")
(defun c:t2m ()
(setq Tset (ssget '((0 . "*TEXT"))))
(setq Setlen (sslength Tset) Count 0)
(repeat SetLen
(setq Ename (ssname Tset Count))
(command "_txt2mtxt" Ename "")
(setq Count (+ 1 Count))
);repeat
(princ)
)

 

[SeanSweeney]

Clever stuff - saved me a couple of hours. Thanks.

 

[Exxit]

Hi,

CarlBs lisp is nice!

2nd way: You can take the wipeout command-> masktype-> solid-> color 255. In Your *.ctb change the screening of 255 to 0 (zero). I think it works in *.pdf

Lothar

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