New Feature: Rich Text

As of the WIP today, Nov. 8, the Text command and the Leader command have been changed to make new style Text and Leader objects.

See the top of this thread for some details about new text functionality.

When files with text and leaders are read, those objects are now converted to the new style objects.

The only Text and Leader objects in V6 files are now the new style ones.

There is a bug in today’s WIP that will cause the size of Text and Text in Leaders that have been read from V5 files to change to the wrong size in most cases.

When you you read the V5 file, the text will appear the right size.

All text now gets it’s properties from Annotation Styles.
When you save the file as a V6 file and re-open it, the text will be the size specified in the Annotation Style that the text references. That will often be different than the text size was in V5.

Saving as V5 will convert the objects back to V5 style Text and Leaders, but the sizes will be wrong in many cases.
Don’t save back over your V5 files without some careful thought.

This bug will be fixed in a few days and files that have been saved that way will be automatically fixed.