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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">In addition to the font mapping, you can specify an aspect ratio to use a given font. This is useful when you know that certain fonts will be better represented using the given aspect ratio (for a given font) rather than one associated with the font.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">export : blockfont = arial.ttf, 0.8</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">If you specify the aspect ratio in the mapping file, it will override any aspect ratio specified in the actual font definition.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">If you do not specify the aspect ratio, it will calculate using the NX string length (exact) and the DXF/DWG string length (approximate) with the mapped font.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">If you do not specify an aspect ratio in the mapping file or in the definition file, an aspect ratio of 1.0 is used.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">You can use the specified aspect ratio for all annotation information. Exported NX dimension information will have the text 'fit' to the correct string length (obtained from NX).</p>
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