I’m copying some text (as Text) from legacy V5 files to V8. There are paths (Curves) laid over the top of the text as it’s being used to make tactile signage. Problem is, the Curves come across faithfully from V5 but the text is getting resized in V8. The Properties panel shows the same text height in both (15.0mm), but the text is clearly larger in V8 so it doesn’t stay aligned with the curves. As well as displaying larger, with that comes greater character spacing so the misalignment gets worse as the text string increases in length.
The font in this case is Helvetica Neue Pro LT Roman 55. This is happening on the same PC so it’s not attributable to reading of different font tables. The original text was created with V5 on this PC.
Is anyone else experiencing similar problems? Is it a bug? More importantly, is there a workaround? I think it must be fairly recent as I’ve been bringing text in from V5 to export to PDF from V8 for a while and don’t recall seeing this happen before. Rhino V8 SR17.
The green bounding box is the same size in both cases: 41.487 x 15.759mm. The font size in both cases is reported as 15.0mm, but you can see it’s grown in V8. Neither instance is very far from world 0,0.
Turning off “Enable model space scaling” doesn’t seem to have any effect. I’ve copy/pasted before and after unchecking it and the two results look identical.
Update: This is definitely a font-dependent fault. I’ve been doing exactly the same thing with two other fonts over the last couple of days and haven’t seen the problem at all.
I’m not sure what it is about the font properties that makes this happen. I suspect that level of insight isn’t exposed to the average user.
