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Shaelos_mom
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May 15, 2015
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Responsive Project Preview automatically changes font type

  • May 15, 2015
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I am trying to create a responsive project with Captivate 8 and have most recent updates installed. The customer wants the font to be Myriad Pro Condensed. I have the Myriad Pro family fonts installed and it appears correctly within Captivate. However, when I attempt to preview the project, slide, etc... even in Adobe Edge Inspect, it changes my font to arial. Because my customer wants a particular font, I am trying to find a resolution or work around for this problem. I have had this issue on both Mac and Windows OS.

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jsvfoto9485530
jsvfoto9485530
Inspiring
June 22, 2015

Thanks TLCMediaDesign. That's kind of what I figured. I think playing it safe and using web friendly fonts is the best way to go for this.

TLCMediaDesign
TLCMediaDesign
Inspiring
May 16, 2015

Captivate does let you actually choose the font Myriad Pro Cond. The condensed is an attribute in CP.

You'll need to do a find and replace in the CPM.js:

Find "Myriad Pro"

Replace with: "Myriad Pro Cond"

If the end user doesn't have Myriad they still won't be able to see the font though.

jsvfoto9485530
jsvfoto9485530
Inspiring
June 22, 2015

Sorry to revive an old thread, but I'm also running into font issues with responsive projects. On a recent responsive project we noticed that Android devices switch Segoe Print to Roboto and that iPads switch it to Times New Roman or Arial. Segoe Print is a font the company has used for a while and they are used to it. It comes out great in SWF files, but not so great in HTML5. Is there perhaps something we can do within a javascript file to ensure that the font is universal across all devices or is this asking for too much from a responsive project (HTML5 file)? We would love to avoid the dilemma of having our end users having to root/jailbreak their devices. It's just not a smart move on many levels. My hunch, based on TLCMediaDesign's last sentence above, leads me to suspect that we're seeking the impossible.

TLCMediaDesign
TLCMediaDesign
Inspiring
June 22, 2015

There are JavaScript solutions, but I fear that using them is against the font licensing.

The best option would be to try and find a web-font replacement. The problem with this is that you are not actually using a web-font for the layout.

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