Text Export

Drednort

I'm trying to export text from one of my maps (basically I want a list of the street names on one of my city maps and that is 90% of the text on the maps) and I'm only getting a very incomplete text file at the end. Are there any known bugs with the text export (Save as Text?)

Mateus090985

Sorry but cant help you. I never used that function. Certainly someone else will give you an hand.

Drednort

There's seems to be some weirdness going on.

If I try to use 'TED' to edit text, the whole entity gets selected, but when I select 'Do It', I only get the first letter of the entity to edit rather than the whole thing (ie, I selected a text entity 'DEADLINE STREET' and when I tried to edit it only 'D' appears.

Drednort

I think the problem might be that I created these entities with Text Along a Curve, and that seems to break the text up into individual letters. Was not expecting that. Not a bug, if so, but many hours extra work for me over what I expected...

Monsen

Yea, text along a curve will do that. A basic text entity can't have a shape, so text along a curve have to split your text into individual entities and group them.

Ralf

Yes, unfortunately, true "curved text" is not possible with CC3+ at this point, so text must be split into individual letters which are rotated to match the curve. A better text tool that allows this is on our wish list.