Text styles

[Gort]

Hello all,

Is there a way to create global text styles that can be used in any open document?

Whenever I create a style, as soon as I open a new document, the style is not available anymore. Is there something I'm neglecting to do, or is this just not possible in Designer?

 

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[walt.farrell]

If you click the Panel Preferences (aka Hamburger) icon for the Text Styles panel, one of your options will be to save the current styles as defaults. If you do that they'll be available in documents you create later, as well as in the current document.

[R C-R]

As I understand it (so someone please correct me if this is wrong!) aside from 'save as Defaults' the closest thing to being able to save multiple different sets of text styles in AD is the Text > Text Styles > Import Text Styles option.

So basically, you could create some 'dummy' documents with some preferred sets of text styles, save them with descriptive names (so there is no confusion about what they are intended for) & use that Text menu option to add some or all of them to your document.

It seems to me like sort of a backwards way to work.

[Gort]

On 5/30/2021 at 8:35 PM, walt.farrell said:

If you click the Panel Preferences (aka Hamburger) icon for the Text Styles panel, one of your options will be to save the current styles as defaults. If you do that they'll be available in documents you create later, as well as in the current document.

Thanks Walt.

I had considered that, but I didn't want the styles to be a default. I have several text styles that I use often and I wanted them to be available to use no matter what document I am working on...would speed things along greatly!

[Gort]

On 5/30/2021 at 8:40 PM, R C-R said:

As I understand it (so someone please correct me if this is wrong!) aside from 'save as Defaults' the closest thing to being able to save multiple different sets of text styles in AD is the Text > Text Styles > Import Text Styles option.

So basically, you could create some 'dummy' documents with some preferred sets of text styles, save them with descriptive names (so there is no confusion about what they are intended for) & use that Text menu option to add some or all of them to your document.

It seems to me like sort of a backwards way to work.

Thanks R C-R.

This sounds promising. When I get home, I'll try this, see how it works for me.

[walt.farrell]

33 minutes ago, Gort said:

I had considered that, but I didn't want the styles to be a default. I have several text styles that I use often and I wanted them to be available to use no matter what document I am working on.

How is "wanting them to be available no matter what document you're working on" any different from "having them as default text styles"? the default text styles are just entries in a list. Nothing forces you to pick one of them.

[Gort]

On 6/1/2021 at 2:22 PM, walt.farrell said:

How is "wanting them to be available no matter what document you're working on" any different from "having them as default text styles"? the default text styles are just entries in a list. Nothing forces you to pick one of them.

As I understand it, if a font style is default, it is used when a new document is created, and when adding text to a document. If that's not the case, then I'm wrong.
The current default style I am happy with for all my general work and don't want to change that, but with other stuff I work on, I want to be able to change parts or blocks of text to other custom preset styles as required.

[walt.farrell]

10 hours ago, Gort said:

As I understand it, if a font style is default, it is used when a new document is created, and when adding text to a document. If that's not the case, then I'm wrong.
The current default style I am happy with for all my general work and don't want to change that, but with other stuff I work on, I want to be able to change parts or blocks of text to other custom preset styles as required.

You are getting confused between defaults for the Frame Text Tool/Artistic Text Tool/Text Frame and the default Text Styles. For your request, you need to update the list of default Text Styles, using the Text Styles panel, as I suggested above. It willnot affect those other things.

[Gort]

6 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

You are getting confused between defaults for the Frame Text Tool/Artistic Text Tool/Text Frame and the default Text Styles. For your request, you need to update the list of default Text Styles, using the Text Styles panel, as I suggested above. It willnot affect those other things.

Oh, I see. Yes, I think I am confusing the two! 

Thanks Walt.

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.