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Work with Text Styles | 489
To set the current text style
■ On the Styles toolbar, in the Text Style control, click the arrow and select
a text style from the list.
Command line
STYLE
Assign Text Fonts
You can assign a text font as part of the text style definition. Several factors
depend on the type of text you are working with.
Overview of Assigning Text Fonts
Fonts define the shapes of the text characters that make up each character
set. In AutoCAD, you can use TrueType fonts in addition to compiled SHX
fonts.
A single font can be used by more than one text style. If your company has
a standard font, you can modify other text style settings to create a set of text
styles that use this standard font in different ways. The following illustration
shows the same font used by different text styles that use different obliquing
settings to define the slant of the text.
You can assign a font to a text style by selecting a font file from the list in the
Text Style dialog box.
Use TrueType Fonts
TrueType fonts always appear filled in your drawing; however, when you
plot, the
TEXTFILL system variable controls whether the fonts are filled. By
default
TEXTFILL is set to 1 to plot the filled-in fonts.