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Character Styles in Adobe Xd are not working properly

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
November 23, 2020
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Hi,

when will the Character Styles bug be fixed?
This worked fine in the old version of Adobe Xd. Now it works randomly. Sometimes you can change selected text by clicking a defined Character Styles and sometimes nothing happens. ?!?!
It is very frustrating. One of the basic options is not working properly.

I attached movie.

Character_Styles_in_Adobe_Xd_-_bug.zip

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Cristiane5C4A

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Hi, I think I just discovered another bug for the Character Styles. I have a bunch of them in my design system together with various colours. When I edited the colours to different hex values, the character styles using the previous colours didn't get updated. The layers in the designs had their colours changed, but not the character styles, so now I need to re-connect all the text with character styles again.

Any help would be great. Thank you.

HARSHIKA_VERMA

Community Manager

Hi @Cristiane5C4A,

Thank you for reaching out, and sorry for the trouble. I am unable to reproduce the issue at my end on the windows machine. Please share the below details with us for better investigation.

Would you mind telling us the version of XD installed on your machine and the details of your operating system?
Please share a short video of the workflow showing the issue.
Does that happen with all files or with a specific file?

Please try adding a new character style in a new file and then try editing the color. Let us know if that helps.

We will try our best to help.

Thanks,

Harshika

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Cristiane5C4A

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Hi there

Thanks for the reply. I have created a video to show the issue. You can see a simple piece of text added as a character style and the colour was also saved in the Colors section. After changing the colour to blue, the text layer does change but the character style still remains red. I hope the video is clear enough.

I have also attached the xd file with a screen shot of my PC system details.

Thanks for your help.

Cris

P.S. I tried to upload the xd file but for some reason is not accepting.

Adobe_XD_2023-01-27_08-15-41.zip

fritzg007

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If I remember correctly, I found that this problem seemed to occur most when I had based character styles on text I had copied and pasted into XD from another application, such as Illustrator. The only fix I could come up with was to create a new instance of the text and style natively within XD, then create my character style from that. That approach seems to work consistently. This may be related to text point sizes that have decimal values versus whole values, which I noticed on some of the imported/pasted text.

Iokkeng.tw

Participant

Hello @fritzg007
Thanks for sharing your experience and solution to the issue. I tried the function as you did, and that solved the problem. I believe Adobe probably had a look at this and released the amended version with the latest updated XD(v36.0.32). Happy to see that it's finally solved! Thanks again!

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Sotiris Gekas

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I have the same problem as well

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jasonr62928018

Participant

Same issue for me too

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Laura Marcela5E3B

Participant

I also have this same problem! Very fraustrating...

Iokkeng.tw

Participant

Hi,
I am experiencing the same issue since the latest update of XD. And I have tried all the tricks that people recommended in the previous discussion, and none of them worked for me. It's 2021 now, has the XD-team finds the solution to this problem yet? THX!

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josipk87635667

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Hey team I think I may have a workaround solution for this.

If you double-click enough times till you highlight the whole paragraph, then you can apply the 'Character Style' and edit/rename the style however you wish. So if you just select the text using Select (V), withouth double-clicking in to it, it doesn't work. You need to double click so the text/word/paragraph is completely highlighted, then go in to your 'Libraries Panel' and apply the 'Character Style.' That seems to have worked. It's not ideal, but it may help until they fix this properly.

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c58355407

Participant

ok, I think the problem is when you are using styles with a decimal point like 48.5pt

dizmarkie52

Participant

None of my styles are using decimals in the size, line-height or character spacing... I did see some people fix their issues when having decimals and then removing them though.

dizmarkie52

Participant

Ok, So when I edit the font in the character style to use a different typeface it works. I was/am using an .otf font but when I change it to Raleway or Roboto for ex. things work and update as expected.

Going to see if I can get a ttf version of the font I'm using and see if that resolves.

dizmarkie52

Participant

Same here. Just switched from Sketch to XD and setting up my Design System and no matter what I do, Character styles in my current file (which was imported from Sketch) will not apply.

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c58355407

Participant

Hi, I have the same problem as well

fritzg007

Participant

Experiencing the same problem.