Need Help Changing Default Fonts

[Guest]

For the most part the standard templates for topics, maps, book, etc. are fine for us. However, we want to change the defaults from Myriad Pro and Minion Pro to our default company fonts. I tried editing the various paragraph tags in the template files. However, when I click on Update All, I get a warning message that doing a global change in a structured document could cause unexpected results. So I canceled the change. Is this the right way to go about doing this? If not, is there an easy way to change the default fonts?

Thanks.
Sharlyn

[Guest · Accepted solution]

Sharilyn,

If you have a structured template created using an Element Definition document (EDD), the font can be set in the EDD. If you use different fonts for different elements (document, chapter, title, para, for example), each element can be defined accordingly. Below is an example of one of the EDDs that I use and the font settings for the Para element in that EDD. Then when I import this EDD into my document or template, the paragraphs will have an Arial 12pt font.

Hope that makes sense.

Janice

[Guest]

Janice,

That does make complete sense. I have attached a picture of the default EDD that I am trying to modify.  When I did a search for the Paragraph Formatting  tag it never defines the font. It just says to use ParagraphFormatTag x (see attached), which was why initally I thought I must need to change the paragraph tag definitions in the template file.  So do I need to modify the EDD to remove the reference to the paragraph format tag and specify the font instead with the PropertiesFont?

Thanks for your help.

[Guest]

Sharlyn (sorry for misspelling your name the first time),

Unfortunately, unless you take a snapshot of your screen as an inclusion to your message (using the camera icon in the toolbar), it may be literally days before it is possible for viewers to open your attachment.

To answer your question to the best of my ability: If the paragraph is using a paragraph format tag, then the element in question would take on whatever font is defined in that paragraph tag. If it is the font you want, that will work, so you can actually handle it that way or as I described (by applying separate font settings for each element if there is a need for each of them to be different).

Hope that helps,

Janice