Impossible to change font weight

For anyone out there years later searching, and finding none of the "solutions" everyone offers works...

Check to see if this might be a variable weight font. Uninstall it, and install the STATIC versions of the font. I had two google fonts with this problem and noticed they both had variable and static options for download. On two different Macs with two different operating systems, they both started working when I reinstalled the *static* versions.

Hi There, appreciate this is a VERY old thread, but I had this issue running Animate 2019 on Catalina yesterday. It had been working fine, then for no apparant reason the 'style' field was greyed out and I couldn't pick sub-styles of fonts. Solved it (hoping it sticks) by quiting aniamate,  deactivating all fonts in my font manager (in this case Typeface) then reopening animate. Style field was re-enabled.

Hi again!

I'm really glad to kwow that this script is being helpful! I still have the intention to turn it into a panel so it won't be necessary to manually call the script everytime a font change is needed.

Anyway, really good to know that the team figured it out the root of the issue, Mohan!

Regards,

JC

Wow! I didn't realized it was so nice! You just have to download the jsfl file, double click it and it works! I saw it but I thought it was quite more difficult than it really is.

Even if it is awesome (I think it really is, thank you João) I think it can't be the definitive solution for this issue. Changing font style is a basic and we cannot stay runing a script every time we want to do so.

Thank you for remembering us the João solution. 

Hi Mohanaraj!
Sorry, but I'm not going to make a fresh new installation of my OS just because I can't change my font-style in Animate. It sounds ridiculous.
I think you shouldn't have marked your answer as the right one even because you are not offering a solution because you are not sure if making the new installation would work.

Thanks anyway for your taking your time! 😉

JoãoCésar

You are my hero too! 

With all due respect I don´t understand how Mohanaraj answer is the "right answer" if it has not been solved by Adobe.

Excellent!

I'm going to work on this script again and see what can be improved.

Probably it's going to be a good idea to turn this into a panel so there won't be the need to keep calling it everytime a font face/weight change is needed.

Regards,

JC

Hi.

While the team doesn't come up with a solution, I wrote this script that may or may not be able to change the font style/face.

Code:

https://github.com/joao-cesar/adobe/tree/master/animate%20cc/jsfl/change_font_face

Download:

Go to the link below and click de Clone or download button to download the whole repository.

https://github.com/joao-cesar/adobe

Usage:

1 - Select one or more text field instances;
2 - Run the "Change Font Face.jsfl" file in one of the following ways:
- Double-clicking it;
- Drag and dropping it over the Animate IDE;
- Going to Commands > Run Command....
3 - Select the font face in the dropdown menu;
4 - Click "OK";

Images:

Please notice that this is experimental. As I cannot reproduce this issue, I'm not sure if this is gonna work.

Issues:

- It's going to load all installed fonts in your system. I'll try to figure out later a way to filter out faces not related to the current text field font family.

- I'm not sure if this will load webfonts. I'll check this later.

Please feel free to modify this script in any way needed.

Regards,

JC

@Mohanaraj your solution suggestion did not work for me.