BookSmart
Changing default fontIs there a way or a workaround to change the default font? 
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Hi copscorgi, Can you clarify about changing the default font? I am not sure if I follow you. The question is too broad and generic. |
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BookSmart pre-assigned a font to all text – titles, headers, footnotes, text, captions – and I’d like to use a different font. The only way I can see to change the font is to change it for every title, header, footnote, text, caption. Is the default font configurable so that BookSmart will default to my selected font every time I add a page? |
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I would love this too—I wasn’t interested in having Georgia 9pt on every page and had to make the change for each section of text, each header and each footer on 116 pages of my recently completed book. It was a pain to say the least… what am I missing here? |
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i think there is no solution yet. |
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Also having properly justified (not right or left or center) text would be excellent. |
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I too would like to change the default font. I tried to do this by changing the font in the header of one page and selecting "Apply to all pages." It didn’t. I suspect each "Theme" has its on defaults and that’s that. Blurb seems to be playing to the mass market in this and other ways. Speaking of mass marketing, is it true that deleting the Blurb mark from the copyright and end pages increases the cost by 33% for each book? Did I read that right??? |
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Hello Fellow Blurbarians, Currently there is not a global font control feature in BookSmart for captions and titles. There is a bit more global control over text that flows across pages and the header and footer. Flowing Text: The best way to edit larger amounts of text is to select some of the text and then use the select-all command (Control+A, or Command + A on a Mac) and then select the font or style you wish to use. Headers & Footers: Clicking into the header and footer will bring up an interface which allows you to choose an option or and then apply your changes. If you choose “Apply to All Pages” it should pass the content and well as the styles (font, color, size, alignment) across the entire book. It is best to wait to do this until you are near finished with your book as this setting currently does not apply when you ad a new page (known issue). Justification and the ability to set a default font have bubbled up as some of the most requested features. Yopur voices are being heard as we plan for upcoming releases. What are other text features you’d like to see? Regarding the Custom Logo Upgrade pricing more information can be found on this page ( http://www.blurb.com/book/logo_pricing ) -Chad |
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I am a designer and realy don’t want to use teh default typefaces. So I’ve created jpegs in photoshop with the text blocks the way I want them to appear. Im afraid though that the type is not going to look clear. the preview of the book makes the type look fuzzy enventhough I’ve created a 300dpi image. Should I think twice about printing this book this way? I don’t want to risk having the type look blurry or pixelated. please advise. thanks. |
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Please see this post which discusses a potential bug in presenting jogs with text. The book should print fine if there is no resolution warning: |
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Update – Version 1.9 is now out. BookSmart will now remember the last font used, in a sense changing the default font. For example, if you change yoru font to Garamond in one caption box then the next caption box you click will remain Garamond instead of changing back to Georgia or Trebuchet as it does in BooKSmart 1.8 |
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I have the same problem with default font. Whatever it is, it’s not what I want. I still have to change my pages one and a time. Furthermore, my headers go "oversize" each time I add or edit a page. My title seems to repeat itself and I get the dreaded triangle with the exclaimation point in it. This occurs on every other one of my pages from the current page forward. I have to remove it one page at a time. This is not a version 8 problem. I still get these issues with the new version. Donna |
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i’d like to change the font of the header to stemple garamond and make it italicized. i’ve done it on each page and hit apply but then it reverts to the standard. |
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