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Assets adding unnecessary text styles


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Designer and Pulisher -- when placing an asset in the page it generates additional text styles not used by the asset itself. It seems the asset recreates the whole list of text styles existing at the time of its creation. So if the assets contains text element using only one text style, when added to the artwork many other will appear in the text styles list. They carry unnecessary "baggage".

Things get further complicated when adding new assets that bring additional styles with same names but diffrent attributes. Style get added with incremental number suffix for example, 'Hint text', 'Hint text 1', 'Hint text 2',...  This makes sens but when the asset introduces many new "baggage" styles, new suffixed styles crop up everywhere making a mess of the Text Styles list.

Only the the styles used in the actual asset should be added.

 

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Perhaps they (the Asset's styles) could be added to a separate list or Studio of Text Styles like the behaviour of the Table of Contents current behaviour. They would be viewable only when the text cursor is in one of the assets, or when one is selected.

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Moving the list to a different place is simply moving the problem somewhere else. The problem I am referring to is the style bloat created when using assets created with text styles. 

As an example, placing one assets that contains an element that uses one single text style, will cause the Text Style list to grow with say 20 additional styles that are not needed or wanted. In this case the asset should only add one styles.

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On 1/17/2019 at 2:02 PM, adq97 said:

Only the the styles used in the actual asset should be added.

Totally agree. Even better would be, if the style aready exists in file to which the asset is added then it should ask whether you want to use the existing style, update the existing style with the one from the asset or keep both (and add a suffix to the style of the asset).

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