anweid Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 Affinity Publisher 1.7.0.139 on Windows 7 (64 bit, German) behaves as follows: Create a document with a text frame and insert some characters. From the 'Text Styles' panel, change the 'Base' group style by right-clicking on it and choosing 'Edit'. The 'Edit Text Style' dialog appears. Under 'Font', choose an OpenType font supporting several stylistic sets. Under 'Variants', switch some stylistic sets on by typing '1' into the corresponding edit fields (instead of the [No change] text). Click 'OK'. The stylistic changes should now be visible. Fine. Edit the 'Base' style again. This time, delete the numbers '1' from the stylistic set edit fields. The fields now display [No change] again. Fine. Click 'OK'. By some reason, the stylistic changes are still visible (nothing happened). Edit the 'Base' style again. Surprise: The previously entered numbers '1' have appeared again, even though they were thrown away the last time. Apparently, these settings can never be set to [No change] again. This also happens with any other paragraph style whose once defined stylistic sets should be removed again. It would be nice if one could get back to the [No change] setting for stylistic sets... Andreas Weidner PS: It might be that I don't understand the GUI in this case: In contrast to Affinity Designer and any other program I know, Affinity Publisher not only supports switching stylistic sets on or off, but can cope with the entry of numbers (e.g., 0, 1, 3, -4, etc.). I don't have the slightest idea what this means (and haven't found anything in the help pages, either)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anweid Posted October 1, 2018 Author Share Posted October 1, 2018 I now created a text style based on 'Base' and tried putting '-1' into the stylistic set edit fields. This threw away the unwanted stylistic sets inherited from 'Base', but editing the text style again now does not show '-1' in the edit fields as entered previously, but [No change], even though the base style uses the stylistic sets, but the inherited style doesn't. This seems all very confusing, and I give up trying to understand that behaviour. It certainly feels like a bug... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Jon P Posted October 5, 2018 Staff Share Posted October 5, 2018 Hi, I would possibly expect this behaviour whilst on editing the Base style, but if I edit a style that is based on another style I can still reproduce being unable to get it back to [No change], which I've logged with the developers to look into. Thanks for reporting this. Serif Europe Ltd. - www.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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