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Started by RhB_HJ, January 10, 2014, 07:44:54 PM

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RhB_HJ

It used to be that the height of the text was in the same units as the basic measurements i.e. if it's mm then each unit of text heights was 1mm, but that's no longer the case with the latest update. What happened?
Hans-Joerg Mueller
Coldstream, BC   Canada

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Nick the Cabin Boy

I always thought text was measured in "points", as per the Wikipedia quote below:

The desktop publishing point (DTP point) is defined as 1⁄72 of the Anglo-Saxon compromise inch of 1959 (25.4 mm) which makes it 0.0138 inch or 0.3527 mm. Twelve points make up a pica, and six picas make an inch.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography)

I'm also sure that this has always been the case in AR, otherwise some of my 150-point labels would be HUGE!

Nick
Elizabeth Grove, South Australia
Building Pottersbridge, a fictional town a little North of London, served by a fictional Heritage Railway, in N

David

The font size is in points if you would set the scale to 1:1 and print it.

We changed that a few years ago. It might be that if you open very old plans the conversion is slightly off.

David.
David Hoogvorst. Founder and Owner of DRail Software. Creator of AnyRail.

RhB_HJ

Yep, bad sign/case of getting old and being half asleep.  :-[ :-[
Hans-Joerg Mueller
Coldstream, BC   Canada

http://www.rhb-grischun.ca

My train videos

Win7Pro 64bit; 8 GB RAM; i5 2.67GHz; 1920x1080 22" display