How to set "default" text style in Layout
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Mac user Sketchup Pro 8:
I know how to set the text style in Sketchup - window> model info>. Can't find the equivalent in Layout.
I can make a template and that works great for a new Layout files, but....
I use two computers to work on the same file (not at the same time - the computers are in different locations in the house). I can create a nice Layout document using a nice text style (Tekton Pro Bold). Save the file and quit the program. Perfect - no problem. Can work on the file on original computer that created it and the text always displays correctly.
When I open the same Layout file on another computer either by accessing the file across my network or by copying the file to the different computer, the text styles are not correct - the displayed text defaults back to the Layout default style (Helvetica Bold). I can't find a way to globally change the text to the preferred style.
If I work with the Layout file on the original computer that created the file, no problem - the text displays correctly.
I guess I simply want Layout to always use Tekton Pro Bold and never Helvetica - which seems to be hard coded into Layout somehow. There should be a way to set the default text and/or insure when a file is opened (created on a different computer) the text style is the one originally specified.
Any suggestions are appreciated - thanks!!
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Do you have Tekton Pro Bold on the second computer? If not, LO will choose a different font. The font(s) used in the LO project is specified in the file but the font itself isn't part of the file. It must reside in the Fonts file on any machine that you would use to open the LO file.
And if you create a template with your chosen font, it should use that from the beginning of a project for which you use that template.
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I should have mentioned it, but yes, the Tekton Bold is resident in both computers. The computers are set up identically - though one is an iMac and one is a Mac pro. Also same version of operating system - snow leopard.
It's a strange.
I have found a lame work around - I select all the view-ports on a page so that the entire page is highlighted and then select Textron as the font - and it changes them all. Problem is that I have to be sure to make sure all the text size is the same.
Thanks
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Certainly you could do a Select All and globally change the font on a page. You shouldn't need to change the size or limit the selection to a single size of the font.
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I think Layout only works with ttf [TrueType] fonts - but I'm pretty sure that's what this font comes as - but OpenType [otf] might mess up ? ...
Sp check that the seemingly 'same' font on the two computers is exactly the same type 'ttf' and the same 'version' etc - because something is telling Layout that the equivalent font doesn't exist on the other machine.
I think that Tekton is an 'architect's' handwriting font
http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/html/readmes/TektonProReadMe.html
Suggests some MAC platform inconsistencies for this particular font, but there are updates...
As a test why not make a word-processor document using this problem font and see if the same file when opened on the other computer still recognizes it as the used font or reverts to another default font... -
- You should be able to set default text style, but for some reason your fonts are not being picked up. I'd follow up as others suggested: create an RTF document in TextEdit on both Macs and make sure it works there. You can even embed the RTF documents in LayOut so updating them will get updated in the LayOut document. File->Insert.
Changing font face on multiple text objects with multiple font sizes may lead to some surprising results, and I have a bug filed on this a while back. The workaround, if you can do it, is to put the text in one text object or in a single RTF file.
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