Text styles?
Hello all. As a new user, I would like to know is it possible to have text formatting styles that can be defined, saved, reused, etc.? At the moment I have to manually change every text object if I want to make a style change, never mind doing the same thing in related new or old maps that I want to have match.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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Any text you place afterwards will have these properties and you can use "Change Text Properties" on any number of existing text entities to set them accordingly.
Hopefully a future update will allow for defined text styles, similar to those for walls, floors, roads, etc. (For example, City Tier 1; City Tier 2; Country; Level 2 Admin; Major River; etc.) When the style is changed/updated, they would all change, provided a style was assigned. Alternately, perhaps particular text properties could be tied to a sheet effect?
Anyhow, thank you for the advice!
I would generally suggest to use Layers for organizing text labels in this way. Then you can simply "select by layer" to change all of one kind (you can't select directly by Sheet).
And please do consider the text styles idea. I use it with real-world GIS mapping, and it makes it really easy to have, as I said, different tiers of topographic features with different label styles that can be changed quickly on any given map. Symbols (for different sizes of cities, ruins, mills, wells, etc.) can also be set by style as well. For example, if a city is defined as "Tier 1 Capital" it will use a particular text style, but also have a red star in a circle as the symbol. If I needed to update that city as a Tier 2 Regional Capital (say due a a change of the capital to a new city), the text style and symbol would also update. This does mean that there is a database behind the map, which of course CC3+ does not have (nor am I asking for one), but similar effects could be done more simply with a easy style change.
If your text is a light color, and your background is a dark color, I suggest hiding everthing but text, freezing the rest of the layers, but allowing background to show. Until I started doing that, I found myself hunting for white text on a white map window. Not fun.