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duyy40596378
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November 2, 2017
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Changing a font always reset to the first font. Annoying.

  • November 2, 2017
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Is there a way to set the Character panel to show the last font used when I want to change a font on a text box? It used to be that way, now every time I want to change a font, the font list window resets to the first font of the list. I have to constantly scroll back to the font name, particularly when I just want to change it to another font within the same family.

Thanks..

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    Correct answer amaarora

    Hi,

    It does show at the top... the top section of the fonts drop down contains the recently used font. Probably you have set the ”Number of recent fonts to display” that are displayed to 0.

    Turn this on from the preference->Type

    -Aman

    3 replies

    J
    JanFrumar
    Participant
    February 25, 2024

    -EDIT
    -PREFERENCES (Ctrl+k in WIN)
    - TEXT tab
    - uncheck "Enable preview font ...."
    - next row 0 (i mean number zero - not 10) - this is because it stays on font, but it will be above in last fonts and not between all fonts. 

    winterm
    winterm
    Legend
    November 2, 2017

    I don't get about Character panel. If you have nothing selected Character panel shows default font. With nothing selected you can easily set another font as default. When you select some text, Char panel immediately shows what font is already applied to that selected text. Quite logical, isn't it? And it always was that way.

      duyy40596378
      duyy40596378Author
      Participant
      November 2, 2017

      Thats not what I mean. For example, I have a text set as helvetica. And I want to change it to helvetica lt std. If I open the character list, it starts at the beginning were A fonts start. Before it would open with the list starting where helvetica sits at. But now I have to scroll back down to the H fonts. Its more work. Sure, once I select a new font it gets displayed under recent fonts.

      amaarora
      Community Manager
      amaaroraCommunity ManagerCorrect answer
      Community Manager
      November 2, 2017

      Hi,

      It does show at the top... the top section of the fonts drop down contains the recently used font. Probably you have set the ”Number of recent fonts to display” that are displayed to 0.

      Turn this on from the preference->Type

      -Aman

      duyy40596378
      duyy40596378Author
      Participant
      November 2, 2017

      I am not looking to go back to a recently used font. I just want that list to show the font I last used so I can preview the the font families next to it. It's how it used to be before CC.

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