mactech Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 My paragraph styles stopped respecting bold and italic formatting coming in from .docx files. I have recreated the styles repeatedly with the same result. Now, when I import text it comes in white and in all caps (which are attributes that I recently formatted some text to have). I did not save this formatting other than in the one place I wanted those attributes. When I try to change the format to my preferred style, it alters the style with a + and retains this unwanted formatting. When I tell it to "apply paragraph style and clear character styles", it changes the color back to black but leaves text in all caps. Then when I import more text, this process starts all over again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. It sounds like you may have saved new defaults for text. You should be able to correct that by: Creating a Text Frame. Setting the characteristics (font, font size, font color) you want Edit > Defaults > Synchronize from Selection Edit > Defaults > Save I'm not sure why that would affect text imported from a .docx file, but with luck the above will help. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mactech Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share Posted May 23, 2020 I tried that, but the new text still imports as all caps. If I type, it is white and all caps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPaceBar Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 Hi @mactech Sorry for the delay in replying & welcome to the forum. I haven't been able to reproduce this. Would you be able to save and attach the afpub document and also attach the .docx file so I can take a look please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mactech Posted June 2, 2020 Author Share Posted June 2, 2020 Attaching the afpub document. The problem is not within the word documents, as I have the problem when I am typing into a new text box. However, I am attaching one of those as well. What is also odd is that my defaults keep changing. When I change them on purpose, they don't hold. When I don't change them, the new formatting that I apply to something, carries forward as the default, and the attributes of the default that have taken hold (like all caps when I don't want it), persist after applying the style. This did not happen before the update. I now have the choice of applying the style and clearing character styles, but I lose the bold and italic formatting from the editors. Any other choice is not even close to the style that I have created. I have setup a spread of imported text for pages 12-13. Before the update it didn't matter what this text looked like. I simply selected the style without any attention to choosing a method of applying it from the Text Styles list palette. I chose the Paragraph Styles area in the toolbar area at the top of the page and chose my style (in this case Meredien). I have remade this style many times since the update and each time I would select text that contains both italics and bold and the font style would say "no changes". However, the style would only format the text Roman, and the style attributes would say "Roman" going forward. !VC_JULY_2020_style_test.afpub 4 BhagawatiColumn 1,148.docx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 Try setting up a basic Group style (I use the name Base for it), set the font, size, leading, justification etc you would use and then base your styles on that instead of No Style. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.0 | Affinity Photo 2.4.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPaceBar Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Hi @mactech Apologies for the delay. Thanks for the files, I will take a closer look and get back to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPaceBar Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Are you able to create a video of this for me please? I can see that your text on pages 12 and 13 look different to all the other pages but I am missing many of your fonts so it would be good to see it in action. You can use this if you have macOS Mojave or later: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208721 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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