Xway b1 - bug: User error can cause Xway to create invalid font styles

Xway
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If you leave the Alternative Fonts field empty in the Fonts view Xway creates an invalid font-family style.
For example: font-family: myfont, ,cursive
Note the empty font reference in the list.

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Hi Tim,

Can you give me some steps, because I’m having trouble reproducing this?

  1. Choose “Other…” from a Font menu
  2. Type “Palatino” as the Font Name
  3. Leave the Alternative Fonts field empty

  4. The New Font dialog displays “Palatino, serif”

  5. Preview

  6. Xway outputs “font-family:Palatino,serif”

Jeremy

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Sorry - I see that you said Fonts view rather than New font dialog.

I can reproduce the issue there, but steps are always helpful!

Jeremy

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  1. Choose “View fonts” from the tool bar
  2. Click New…
  3. Enter McLaren for the Font Name
  4. Add Times to the Alternative Fonts field
  5. Select Cursive from the Font Type menu
  6. Enter the following URL for a hosted font
    https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=McLaren&display=swap
  7. Preview

  8. Xway outputs “font-family: McLaren,Times,cursive”

  9. Return to view fonts from the tool bar
  10. Select the McLaren entry
  11. Remove the text from the Alternative Fonts field
  12. Preview

  13. The font is not rendered in McLaren as the font-family reference is now broken and Way outputs: “font-family: McLaren,cursive”

A bit more involved that I’d first imagined as the issue looks like it is with the entry editing rather than the creation.
For extra points note that Xway won’t render the font in the design view but does OK when previewed. Maybe there is a fix for that.

Incidentally how do I delete font sets? I can’t appear to delete them and now I’ve got a shed load of them while testing this! :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the steps!

Xway won’t render the font in the design view

It will display the font if you download it from Google and put it in your fonts folder.

how do I delete font sets?

You don’t need to delete fonts. Unless you set them to be permanent they will be automatically deleted when they are no longer needed - which means when they are no longer used in the document or on the document’s undo stack.

Even if they are no longer needed in the current document, they might be needed if you undo to a previous stage of the document. There is a note about this in the Xway User Guide:

Note: Temporary fonts are not always removed immediately. If they are not used within the document, but are applied to objects that exist in the undo stack (and can be brought back by undoing or redoing), they are retained until they are no longer needed. Fonts that are used by objects in the undo stack, but are not used in the document, will be removed when the document is saved and reopened.

Jeremy

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Xway won’t render the font in the design view

It will display the font if you download it from Google and put it in your fonts folder.

For more detail see the “Working with fonts” section in the User Guide.

Jeremy