use of styles in V2

[AlanPickup]

Apologies if already noted. I am finding the settings in styles do not replicate in V2. I use the Mike's Styles collection and there seem to be a lot of discrepancies in colour and other settings. If I import an object created in V1 using a style it is correct.

Also the new thumbnails do not show the correct appearance, whether this is because the icon uses the style and is not rendered correctly? 

[carl123]

Mike's Styles are missing certain FX attributes/settings when used in V2

Since they are a user created resource, I can't be sure if the problem is with how Mike created them or in V2

(But I suspect V2 and it may well be a bug)

 

[AlanPickup]

Hi Carl

Picked up from the FX the attributes where missing, but there seems to be major problems with the Styles panel. If you read the help to save a style it says "click panel preferences" on the Styles panel, which should indicate click the three horizontal lines and if you click create style from object in both the Edit menu or the styles menu nothing happens if the object style was created in V1, I was hoping it would be as simple as that for my favourites

[carl123]

If I save a V1 document with the styles I want applied to some objects, I can open that document in V2 and add the styles from those objects using the styles panel and the option to "Add style from selection"

These styles then work correctly in V2 (i.e. the same as V1)

[AlanPickup]

Hi Carl

Not the case for me? Whether it is something to do with the actual style nothing happens when I select add style from selection. The one I used is attached

styles test.afpub

[carl123]

I opened your document

Created a style from the rectangle (which showed up in the styles panel, at the bottom of the list of styles)

I then created a new blank rectangle and applied that style to it

All works OK here

We may need a video to see what may be different when you do it

 

[walt.farrell]

Something perhaps similar was reported earlier, and acknowledged as a bug by Serif but (unfortunately) without a bug tag provided as far as I can see.

 

[NathanC]

Hi @AlanPickup,

I've just downloaded a copy of the original Mike's Styles .afstyles file and compared the import results between V1 and V2, it appears that many of the effects settings (Bevel, Outline, Inner Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Shadow) which have a px value are dropped down to a fraction of what they should be, for example 'Outer Shadow' Radius and Offset has been dropped to 0.01px instead of the expected 9px. FX adjustments which don't have a pixel setting such as Gradient overlay are not affected by this which is why it's still intact.

Back in December I did log this with the developers but it doesn't appear to have been fixed yet and affects any FX adjustment with a pixel value applied, i'll update the existing issue with this example along with the additional findings.

 

Mike_styles.afstyles

[AlanPickup]

22 hours ago, carl123 said:

I opened your document

Created a style from the rectangle (which showed up in the styles panel, at the bottom of the list of styles)

I then created a new blank rectangle and applied that style to it

All works OK here

We may need a video to see what may be different when you do it

 

 

Apologies it did create the style, I was expecting some sort of prompt to name it, with it appearing different to the V1 icon I did not pick it up that it had created the style and named it with the next number in the group

[Elynde]

I ran into this issue today, too. I tried to use a style created in V1, and it failed to work in V2. It only kept the gradient, but discarded the rest.

I thought maybe the styles were no longer compatible, so I recreated the style entirely in V2. That seems to have done the trick.