Issues with Global Colors in Appearances

[LionelD]

Editing a global color does not update instances in Appearances unless you first select the affected Appearance.

This is quite the fiddle, hope my description and the attached files which are almost identical.

To me this appears to be a defect/bug that detracts from the value of using global colors.  I’m hoping Serif can confirm my diagnosis and fix as appropriate.  Please.  Soon?

Each file contains one large curve with 3 strokes in the Appearance panel.  The strokes are styled and colored independently.

There are also 3 short curves with arbitrary reference colors; each of these curves has a single stroke.

Initially, all colors were applied from the global colors in “Doc Palette”.

There is narrative text in each file.  Test 02 history was cleared before editing; it is very short and contains only the critical steps to reproduce the problem.

AD2 Test 02.afdesign AD2 Test 01.afdesign

[DWright]

Is it possible for you to export and paste a copy of your Swatches palette

[Dazmondo77]

I remember reporting this when the appearance panel was first introduced years ago in v1 as I always start a project with a set of globals, I've just got used to creating additional strokes on separate layers as a workaround, so not a massive deal of me, although It would be really handy if it worked as expected and also would be great to be able to have multi strokes on text

[LionelD]

@DWright  Thanks for following up.  I’ve attached exported palettes for each file, named accordingly.

By the way, each of the curves carrying the Base Colors is labeled with the Hex Code for the initial color set.  In Test 02, one of those curves has the wrong Hex Code because I did not correct it after the update.

I really hope you guys can fix this - soon.  I have a few projects that really need this capability, and I’ve delayed further work in the hope this problem gets corrected. I know I could use the approach @Dazmondo77 suggests, but there are a lot of curves and I would need to ensure each curve in the duplicated set has exactly the same shape.  I’m sure to get that wrong at least some of the time…

Thanks

Doc Palette for Test 01.afpalette Doc Palette for Test 02.afpalette

Edited June 20, 2024 by LionelD
Clarification

[LionelD]

I should have mentioned this is from a 2019 iPad Pro running the latest iPadOS and latest published AD2.

Thanks