Text¶

The single line TEXT entity (DXF Reference). The style attribute stores the associated Textstyle entity as string, which defines the basic font properties. The text size is stored as cap height in the height attribute in drawing units.

See also

See the documentation for the Textstyle class to understand the limitations of text representation in the DXF format.

Tutorial for Text

Subclass of	`ezdxf.entities.DXFGraphic`
DXF type	`'TEXT'`
Factory function	`ezdxf.layouts.BaseLayout.add_text()`
Inherited DXF attributes	Common graphical DXF attributes

Warning

Do not instantiate entity classes by yourself - always use the provided factory functions!

class ezdxf.entities.Text¶

dxf.text¶: Text content as string.

dxf.insert¶: First alignment point of text (2D/3D Point in OCS), relevant for the adjustments “LEFT”, “ALIGNED” and “FIT”.

dxf.align_point¶: The main alignment point of text (2D/3D Point in OCS), if the alignment is anything else than “LEFT”, or the second alignment point for the “ALIGNED” and “FIT” alignments.

dxf.height¶: Text height in drawing units as float value, the default value is 1.

dxf.rotation¶: Text rotation in degrees as float value, the default value is 0.

dxf.oblique¶: Text oblique angle (slanting) in degrees as float vlaue, the default value is 0 (straight vertical text).

dxf.style¶: Textstyle name as case insensitive string, the default value is “Standard”

dxf.width¶: Width scale factor as float value, the default value is 1.

dxf.halign¶

Horizontal alignment flag as int value, use the set_pos() and get_align() methods to handle text alignment, the default value is 0.

0	Left
2	Right
3	Aligned (if vertical alignment = 0)
4	Middle (if vertical alignment = 0)
5	Fit (if vertical alignment = 0)

dxf.valign¶

Vertical alignment flag as int value, use the set_pos() and get_align() methods to handle text alignment, the default value is 0.

0	Baseline
1	Bottom
2	Middle
3	Top

dxf.text_generation_flag¶

Text generation flags as int value, use the is_backward and is_upside_down attributes to handle this flags.

2	text is backward (mirrored in X)
4	text is upside down (mirrored in Y)

property is_backward¶: Get/set text generation flag BACKWARDS, for mirrored text along the x-axis.

property is_upside_down¶: Get/set text generation flag UPSIDE_DOWN, for mirrored text along the y-axis.

set_pos(p1: Vertex, p2: Vertex = None, align: str = None) → Text ¶

Set text alignment, valid alignments are:

Vertical	Left	Center	Right
Top	TOP_LEFT	TOP_CENTER	TOP_RIGHT
Middle	MIDDLE_LEFT	MIDDLE_CENTER	MIDDLE_RIGHT
Bottom	BOTTOM_LEFT	BOTTOM_CENTER	BOTTOM_RIGHT
Baseline	LEFT	CENTER	RIGHT

Alignments “ALIGNED” and “FIT” are special, they require a second alignment point, text is aligned on the virtual line between these two points and sit vertical at the base line.

“ALIGNED”: Text is stretched or compressed to fit exactly between p1 and p2 and the text height is also adjusted to preserve height/width ratio.
“FIT”: Text is stretched or compressed to fit exactly between p1 and p2 but only the text width is adjusted, the text height is fixed by the dxf.height attribute.
“MIDDLE”: also a special adjustment, centered text like “MIDDLE_CENTER”, but vertical centred at the total height of the text.

Parameters

p1 – first alignment point as (x, y[, z]) tuple
p2 – second alignment point as (x, y[, z]) tuple, required for “ALIGNED” and “FIT” else ignored
align – new alignment, None for preserve existing alignment.

get_pos() → Tuple[str, ezdxf.math._vector.Vec3, Optional[ezdxf.math._vector.Vec3]]¶: Returns a tuple (align, p1, p2), align is the alignment method, p1 is the alignment point, p2 is only relevant if align is “ALIGNED” or “FIT”, otherwise it is None.

get_align() → str¶: Returns the actual text alignment as string, see also set_pos().

set_align(align: str = 'LEFT') → Text ¶

Just for experts: Sets the text alignment without setting the alignment points, set adjustment points attr:dxf.insert and dxf.align_point manually.

Parameters: align – test alignment, see also set_pos()

transform(m: Matrix44) → Text ¶: Transform the TEXT entity by transformation matrix m inplace.

translate(dx: float, dy: float, dz: float) → Text ¶: Optimized TEXT/ATTRIB/ATTDEF translation about dx in x-axis, dy in y-axis and dz in z-axis, returns self.

plain_text() → str¶: Returns text content without formatting codes.

font_name() → str¶: Returns the font name of the associated Textstyle.

fit_length() → float¶: Returns the text length for alignments “FIT” and “ALIGNED”, defined by the distance from the insertion point to the align point or 0 for all other alignments.