Set the font and size of text with text styles

What you'll do

Make a text style called Notes with its own font and height, use it for new text, and later change the style so every note that uses it changes at once.

Steps

1. Type STYLE (ST) and press ReturnEnter, or click Text style on the Draw toolbar. The Text style dialog lists the styles in the drawing. Every drawing has Standard.
2. Click New…, type Notes as the name of the new style and click OK. The status line says "Text style Notes made and set current."
3. In Font, choose or type a font name. Set Height (0 = ask each time) to a number, such as 2.5, so every new text gets that height. Leave it at 0 to be asked each time.
4. Set Width factor and Oblique angle (°) if you want narrower, wider or slanted letters. The sample line shows the result.
5. Click Close. Draw text with TEXT or MTEXT: new text takes the current style.
6. To use a style you already made, open the dialog again, pick it in the list and click Set current.
7. To put a style on text that is already drawn, select the text, open the dialog, pick the style and click Apply to selected text.

Change a style later

Change the font, height, width or slant of a style in the dialog and every text that uses it follows, in one undo step (⌘ZCtrl+Z). The status line says how many texts followed.

Notes

• Delete refuses Standard, and a style that text still uses: change that text to another style first.
• The styles are saved in the drawing's STYLE table, so DXF and DWG files keep them.
• On the command line, -STYLE does the same with options (Current, New, Font, Height, Width, Oblique, Delete, List).
• A font that is not on the computer reading the drawing is shown in another face.