Posted by LordOfBikes on Dec 30, 2022; 11:34am
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Problems-with-displaying-dimension-text-or-just-text-in-general-tp5722331p5722332.html

First, you can check with the Text tool if the fonts folder is found by LibreCAD.
Use MText tool and see if the drop down box is filled with font names.
If not, there is an issue finding fonts.

As I also can't see arrows, I suspect an issue with Dimension settings.
Draw a rectangle with this command sequence (copy/past to command line): rect;0,0;100,100
Then place a dimension on that rectangle. When the General Scale is 1.0, which should be default, the dimension text and arrows should be visible.
Otherwise check General Scale in Current Drawing Preferences -> Dimensions.
See https://librecad.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ref/draw-prefs.html?highlight=dimensions#dimensions

When you usually have small/big dimensions, you have to adjust the General Scale to scale up/down arrows and text sizes.
Dimension settings are stored in the DXF file. So when you always work small/big scale, you can change that in empty.dxf which is opened at LibreCAD start.

It can also be related with drawing units. Are you working with Inch units? Then my first hint may fail.
I'm not sure what happens, if Dimension settings are proper scaled.
The settings in Current Drawing Preferences are in mm, so when the rectangle is 100x100 Inch instead of 100x100mm, the dimensions may be too small too. Try a General Scale of 25.4 then.

Armin