Anyone else encounter an issue with text not switching to Bold when selected?
I’ve noticed it in several instances where the font style does not change when Bold is selected, but it does for Italic. This has been across several versions, so not new.
Today I finally got one to pop to bold, so copied and edited for the other areas where I needed it, because I could not get the other texts to change. I realize it’s dependent upon the font set selected and that it must include the bold style.
I tried multiple steps to reproduce to report it as an issue, but couldn’t find one.
This happens with certain fonts on certain platforms.
If you’ll let us know the specifics we can look into it, but the most expedient thing to do is to use a different font, or to set the text in a 3rd party tool and convert to paths, then import.
I just ran a simple test of creating text, then selecting Futura, then bolding, deselecting, reselecting, then bolding/unbolding, italicizing/unitalicizing, etc. I cannot make it fail with just this one piece of text, except that there is no bold+italics variant in Futura (which I expect you knew). Is there something else in your design workflow that I could test? Using CCP on MacOS Ventura 13.5.2 (Apple m1).
This varies with specific fonts and seems to be determined by how the bold and regular fonts are created and made to interact by the underlying type programming object.
It’s a known and reported bug, but one which is caused by (cross-platform) programming toolkit which we are using.
For folks who want to research this sort of thing more deeply, the terms to use are:
Apple Advanced Typography (AAT)
Apple Typographic System for Unicode Information (ATSUI)
You can see the differences in how fonts are handled by contrasting programs written using the Cocoa toolkit — TextEdit.app, Cenon.app:
with those written using Carbon (Microsoft Word) and those written using the QT toolkit (Inkscape and Carbide Create).
Folks who want better handling of type will probably want to use 3rd party tools such as Adobe Illustrator or Serif’s Affinity Designer — set the type and once satisfied with it, convert to paths and export as an SVG w/ appropriate setting which may then be imported into Carbide Create to have toolpaths assigned.