Text distortion with Arial fonts in AutoCAD

Autodesk Support

Jan 23, 2024

Products and versions covered

Issue:

When editing, viewing, regenerating mtext with the Arial or Romantic font in AutoCAD, the text condenses and overlaps, appears to have a narrow width factor, or may exceed the margins of text box.

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Causes:

Data corruption in the drawing file.
Updates or Hotfixes need to be applied.
Missing font

Solution:

To resolve the issue install the latest update.

If the issue persists try the following suggestions:

Isolate text objects and copy them into clean drawings until a corrupt object is found.
Rebuild the corrupt objects in a separate drawing.
Reinsert the corrected objects into the effected drawings.
Reset the text styles by assigning them a different font (i.e., set them to Arial Baltic and then back to Arial).
Resave the drawing to DWG 2013 format and edit it in AutoCAD 2017.

In the case of a font missing:
Download and Reinstall the missing font (See: How to install a font into AutoCAD)

Products:

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