Text Scaling Overview

See also Insert Text Detailed Print Preview  Print Preview Printed Text Scale Factor Printed Text Size Limits On-Screen Printed Text Size Factor Text Scaling Options

Scaling text in architectural drawings is not a simple issue.

Three issues are involved:

• Text Readability
• Text Position
• Esthetic appearance

These issues are frequently in conflict depending on plan size, paper size, zoom level and other factors.

Home Plan Pro provides tools to try to resolve these issues.

Readability requires that text not be too big or too small.

Often a plan must be scaled considerably larger or smaller in order to fit on a particular size sheet of paper.

If the text in a plan is scaled exactly the same as the rest of the plan, it may be too big or too small to be readable.

However, if the text is scaled differently than the rest of the plan, it may run into other drawing elements and the esthetics are adversely affected. 

For example: 

• Write "Closet" in a small closet
• Scale the plan 50%smaller
• Keep the text large enough to be readable

Now the text is "out of the closet" and leaks into the bedroom.

The answer esthetically, is to scale the text the same as the rest of the drawing. Then "Closet" will always be in the closet. But it may be too small to read.

The answer to make the text readable is to keep it within the readable size range. But then it might not fit in the space provided.

The following tools are provided to help:

• Detailed Print Preview
• Printed Text Size Factor
• Printed Text Size Limit
• Text Scaling Options