Background Mask is incompatible with "Lines Merge"

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Saturday, 01 April 2006

When 2005 was released, we were introduced to a new property for MTEXT entities: background mask. Unfortunately, background masking only works when output devices are set to "lines overwrite." From an OOP point of view, its easy to guess why it works the way it does out of the box. From a users point of view, however, it's unacceptable in many situations.

Workarounds: Using the Express Tools TEXTMASK / WIPEOUT entities, just like you had to in 2000-2004
First Appeared: AutoCAD 2005
Status as of 2008: Still reproducible
Status as of 2009: (unknown - please email with any info)

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