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October 14, 2021
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Font not being applied in RH2020

  • October 14, 2021
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Things were fine, i.e., all fonts were the same on my mobile pages. Now, first page has our proprietary font, second page has a mixture, proprietary font (let's call it MyFont) in the h1, MyFont in p and no font selected in td so in td, I have Times New Roman as the font. I've gone to the deafult.css, checked that: MyFont, Arial, sans-serif; is in the body section, no other font used anywhere in the CSS. There is no stylesheet associated with the master page and I don't use a master page when generating. 

 

I had noticed this last week and couldn't figure out how to update the style, there's some confusing thing about make your change then click on the update style icon but when I go to a different page, the change I had made to styles is not applied. When I click on Styles in the right hand side, I have no styles, None. I then went into each place where my font had to be applied and changed the Font Family for that section in Content Properties, clicking on Update Style after each change. Saved, generated and looked, no changes appear in my generated output, fonts are still changing to Times New Roman and when I go back to my project, the changes I've made to Font Family are gone.

 

What am I doing or not doing wrong? Thanks for your help.

Helen

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    Peter Grainge
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    October 15, 2021

    It seems there is a trick to using Update Style. Rather than selecting a heading, select the breadcrumb above, apply the changes and then click Update Style. That works.

     

    I think it should work by selecting the text as it did in Classic.

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    Peter Grainge
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    October 15, 2021

    I suspect there may be a bug in Update Style. My understanding is it should change the CSS but it doesn't. I have reported this to Adobe.

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    Community Expert
    October 14, 2021

    Making any changes in Content Properties will only make the change to the specific element (paragraph, heading, list item, etc) that is selected, so I don't recommend doing that.

     

    Given you say the Styles panel doesn't list any styles, that suggests a stylesheet is not associated with the topic. check in the Topic Properties panel. You can also check the stylesheet for all topics - tick the Stylesheets checkbox under columns - and bulk apply one if necessary, using the Topic List report.

     

    Also, if the proprietary font is not installed on every computer that will access your help, you'll need to make sure the font is specified using @ font-face. See Peter's site for instructions and a demo.