On opening a legacy version project in QuarkXPress 2018, font information in the document will map correctly to the new font display behavior. it has font family, font styles and type style buttons and font styles are mapped to font faces (type style buttons). You can always refer to the Apple’s own text Edit application which has a similar behavior- i.e. If a font family doesn’t have font styles having Bold / Italics/ Bold Italic font face and the user applied Bold / Italics/ Bold Italics type styling, then faux styling will be applied be applied on Bold/ Italics/ Bold Italics (which will be indicated with faux style warning icon) and the font style field will display as blank. If a font family doesn’t have a font style having a Plain font face, and the user applies Plain type style then font style field will display as blank. Like Impact –Regular font has font style ‘Regular’ but has a Bold font face.

There are some fonts whose font style name and their corresponding font face don’t match. Font styles like Italics, Oblique, Condensed Italics – all contain Italics font face (hence italics type style will be selected). Font styles like Regular, Plain, Normal, Light, Semi Light, Condensed- all contain Plain font face (hence plain type style will be selected). Font styles like Bold, Black, Heavy, Semi Bold, SemiBold Condensed- all contain Bold font face (hence bold type style button will be selected). corresponding type style button will be selected). Font styles are now mapped to their corresponding font faces.

The fonts are displayed using the font family name and font style name. Font family menu displays all the font families and font style menu displays the available font styles for the selected font family. In QuarkXPress 2018, there are two menus for fonts- font family menu and font style menu. There used to be a single font menu and font styles were displayed in the font family submenu using their font ‘Full Name’. So you could either apply Lydian Roman font and then press Bold type style, or directly apply Lydian Bold font, in both cases Lydian Bold font would get applied on the text. Even if you applied a Regular/ Bold/ Italic font, the font was not mapped to the font face. Prior to QuarkXPress 2018, fonts were not mapped to their font faces (type style buttons in the measurement palette/ character style sheet reflect the font face of a font). The font enumeration behavior and the display of fonts in the font menus has been changed in QuarkXPress 2018.

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