autocad LT2000 text editor font visibility 1

[chashend]

Anyone had the following problem with the text editor in LT2000?

When we create or edit text in the MTEXT box it is virtually invisible, if you hightlight it you can see it's there.
Changing the colour from BYLAYER to BYBLOCK or any other colour in the palette has absolutely no effect, the text still is invisible.
we are running LT2000 on XP on Dell machines here, could this be an XP-related problem? Autodesk UK suggested checking the "smooth font edges" box in the XP control panel
but I've done this and it has no effect.

 

[rKeyTek]

What's the color of your background screen?
Is it BLACK? If so, is the MTEXT block color 250?
Or is the screen white, where the MTEXT is 255?
Both situations will cause the text to disappear or blend into the background.

Let me know.

 

[cfee]

I have the same problem with ACAD-2002. No, to both questions above. I'm interested in this one, too!
Good Luck,
C. Fee

 

[SPEAR]

I had this also

All my text & dims are colour 12 (red-ish) with a black background.

What i have done is put

^C^C-layer MAKE 0;

in front of the text editor callup command ( I use a universal text editor that edits all text i.e. attributes , dims , mtext , ect) theory should work for any editor though . I never change 0 layer properties so the colour is always white.

My other colleagues don’t have this problem – even though I set their machine up. I have mine tweaked to the hilt so can only assume I have a conflict some where.

Do you get colour conflicts with the Mslide command ? If I have Yellow on a drawing and Mslide it – the slide goes pink. (also effects other colours) This one I haven’t solved.

 

[rusk]

Wow I thought I was the only one.

I'm running ACAD 2000 on a new Dell with Win XP that I just started using as part of our companies pc upgrade plan.

Like Spear I set up all of my work mates pc's (all same type of machine) and tweaked mine just a bit (to same degree as old pc) and now all my mtext is faint when I use the text editor. It displays fine on the screen, only faint while in the editor window. Some of the other guys have the same prob while others do not. It seems to be a system problem as opposed to an individual drawing problem since I can open the same dwg with 2 different machines and one will view text ok but the other will view fainted text.

On the old pc I didn't ever have this problem.

It happens with all colours of text all the time. It does it on both black & white backgrounds but it is worse on black. I've tried every color in the book and it does it to all of them. There must be some kind of sys variable that I haven't tried yet.

I've even tried resetting my profile in options and still have not solved this one.

If anyone out there has the solution to this prob please share.

Thanks all,
Rusk

 

[tomol]

Hi,

I used to have the same problem and solved it by lowering the colours setting of the screen (win2000/Autocad2002). I found the solution from Autocad's knowledge database so it is a known problem with a very little acceptable solution.

For XP:

This is caused by a Windows XP display setting for font display.

To change how the fonts are displayed:

Right-click on the Windows XP desktop and click Properties on the shortcut menu.
In the Properties dialog box, click the Appearance tab.
Click Effects.
Clear the Use the Following Method to Smooth the Edges of Screen Fonts option.
Click Apply and Close.


As you are using LT2000 I am not sure wether this applies for you but it might be worth a try.


Tom

 

[rusk]

Thanks Tom.

I just found the same solution and was about to post it but you beat me to it.

We both must have have found the same page at the knowledge database.

Does anyone out there know the purpose of having the 'smooth edge screen font' option on?

What programs could I be negatively affecting by turning it off?

Thanks again,
Rusk