I have been dealing with an issue in Stardraw Audio for more than a year for which I have received no real helpful replies from tech support:



If I unlock the document and re-size the font in any text within any Stardraw-supplied symbol, the size does not correspond to any text which I have inserted manually.



For example, if I change the size of a block symbol's text to .5", it will be waaaaay bigger than manually-inserted text sized to .5".



What gives?



This makes it almost impossible to re-size text because I have to think about whether it is part of a symbol, or my own added text.



Thanks for any help.

Hello,



I got no explanation for that behavior but I might have a solution for you:



First make sure you set a detailed enough precsion (Options -> Preference -> Precesion)



If you type 0,100" for a custom added Text, it will be devided by ten the the size for your symobl: 0,010".



This solves not your problem but maybe gives you a chance to handle it better.

Martin Staehle

Stardraw Control Driver Programmer

Hi Greg,

I'm pleased to tell you that a Minor Version Release has just been published that includes a number of fixes and enhancements. One of these fixes resolves the problem you encountered.

The enhancement delivers a number of additional benefits:

• you can set a new height for all text in a symbol without unlocking.  Just select a symbol (or symbols) and type a new value into the text height box in the font toolbar.
• resizing of text is sympathetic to the original text position, baseline and alignment
• applies to other text objects so that, for example, you can set your own cable label height across multiple Cables/Doglegs

The update can be applied by performing a LiveUpdate at www.stardraw.com - visit your application's homepage and click on the link on the left of the page to LiveUpdate.

I hope this is helpful.

Kind regards,
Rob Robinson
Stardraw.com

Just updated and it seems to work as far as I worked with it. Thanks for this fix-I have many other things to do in addition to documenting our projects-this will make it much easier and save many swear words!

I have updated recently, but am still not able to select text in a symbol and type anything into the text height window on the tool bar, (well I can type, but when I hit enter it goes back to what it was before).  I can choose the up or down arrow to control height but my choice then, is between too big or two small.

I am updating as builts that were made in previous versions of Stardraw, could that be a factor?

Thanks,

Linda

Hi Linda,

Can you tell me what Measurement Unit is selected when you choose Options | Preferences?

What value do you type into the Text Height box?

Is the symbol selected when you enter the new text height value?

Can you email the drawing to techsupport@stardraw.com along with a note of what text height you're trying to set to what text?

Kind regards,
Rob Robinson
Stardraw.com

Hi Rob,



I'm having trouble trying to use one of the features you mention...







How do you select all cables/doglegs in a drawing in order to then set the text attributes (height, font, bold etc) to the same value? I need to make a large number of cables and doglegs consistent on an old drawing that has been added to with inconsistent text sizes over the years. As the drawing has grown in size considerably over the years the original size which was readable on A1 is no longer readable on A0.



Alternatively is there a way to globally edit the CS_START_LABEL and CS-END_LABEL text attributes?



Many thanks,



Tim

Hi Tim,

We've spoken on the phone about this topic so this post is to keep other forum users up to date.

There isn't a way to select 'all objects by type', so you would need to use regular selection methods to build up the selection you want, i.e. click on individual objects, or drag a selection rectangle around the whole of the desired object(s), and use the Shift key in conjunction with click or drag to add to/delete from the selection.

Once you've established your selection, you would change the text as per my post on 7/29/2008.

Kind regards,
Rob Robinson
Stardraw.com