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If the MTEXTFIXED variable is set to 2, the text editor zooms automatically to the edited text. So the text remains readable even if it is too close (large), too far (small), rotated, upside-down, or off-screen.

Setting MTEXTFIXED to 1 does the opposite - rotated text (both dtext and paragraph mtext) will be in-place edited in a rotated edit box.

This behaviour depends also on the MTEXTED variable (oldeditor) - see Help.

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See also:
Tip 14446:Undocumented options in AutoCAD FIELDs - hyperlinks, hexadecimal or binary format
Tip 14080:AutoCAD 2025/2026 is not displaying some fonts correctly.
Tip 13938:ModDXF - utility for bulk modification/display of internal DXF properties in DWG entities.
Tip 13831:ReplMTcol - recoloring parts of text in paragraph Mtext.
Tip 12475:Mysterious text rotation when editing.


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