Topic: "tblnext" shows no group 3 for Textstyle

[Peter2]

Thanks to all, especially to MP.

I hope that I'm at the end of the tunnel now - I will report and post the final code fragment here in a few days.

[rkmcswain]

Have you tried inspecting the xdata for the STYLE (AcDbTextStyleTableRecord) entity?

e.g.:

Code: [Select]

(entget (tblobjname "style" "standard") '("*"))

Apologies if I overlooked it, but under what circumstances would the font name be stored in Xdata as opposed to just in group 3?

Thanks.

[Lee Mac]

Have you tried inspecting the xdata for the STYLE (AcDbTextStyleTableRecord) entity?

e.g.:

Code: [Select]

(entget (tblobjname "style" "standard") '("*"))

Apologies if I overlooked it, but under what circumstances would the font name be stored in Xdata as opposed to just in group 3?

I believe when the font name is not equal to the referenced font file, such as when using a TrueType font as opposed to a shape file, e.g.:

Code - Auto/Visual Lisp: [Select]

1. _$ (elist (tblobjname "style" "standard"))
2. (
3.     (-1 . <Entity name: 7ffff703910>)
4.     (0 . "STYLE")
5.     (330 . <Entity name: 7ffff703830>)
6.     (5 . "11")
7.     (100 . "AcDbSymbolTableRecord")
8.     (100 . "AcDbTextStyleTableRecord")
9.     (2 . "Standard")
10.     (70 . 0)
11.     (40 . 1.0)
12.     (41 . 1.0)
13.     (50 . 0.0)
14.     (71 . 0)
15.     (42 . 1.0)
16.     (3 . "calibri.ttf")
17.     (4 . "")
18.     (-3
19.         (
20.             "ACAD"
21.             (1000 . "Calibri")
22.             (1071 . 34)
23.         )
24.     )
25. )

[rkmcswain]

Lee Mac.....

I have examined several of our drawings all from the same template, same text style, same font reference (AFAIK), and some have the TTF font name in group 3, and others have group 3 as an empty string and list the font in EED.
I can't see any rhyme or reason to it.
Hmmmmmm