Hi @Shebbe,
This is fallout from introducing Essential Properties in the Props Panel in 23.6 which added Font Controls to the Text Control for Essential Properties. When the EPs were only in the timeline, in versions 23.5 and before, the only way to overwrite a Primary text control was by changing the source text via the Edit Text pop-up menu. It was not possible to change the font, font size, or faux style. So if users made changes to the font stylings in the EGP, those changes would cascade to all of the related text params in Essential Properties. This behavior actually breaks the concept of EPs at its very core, since no params should cascade out to all templated params once they've been edited. But! that was the way it worked for years.
As of 23.6, though all of the sub-parameters of the source text control can be exposed via the Properties Panel.
source text
font
font family
font size
font control
Changing the source text of the EP text overwrites the primary value and now becomes independent from the Primary Control. So if you change the font in the Primary Control, that change won’t cascade to the EP-related Text Controls if one of the sub-params listed above has been changed. The new model introduced in 23.5 also broke existing projects where font stylings are not respected in some cases. i.e. even when the font parameters were not exposed in the EGP, the wrong font is rendering at project open. It's truly a mess. We've tried to get a fix developed but it's led to more convoluted problems and confusing design issues. I'm so sorry for this awful situation. It's no easy tasks to make so many manual changes. I'm wondering if there is a way to write a script to automate those changes so that you won't have to do them manually. I'm asking around and will update if I find a good hack.
Apologies again,
- Dacia Saenz, AE Engineering Team
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