This is bad news. When I select a font onscreen and open the character palette, then click on the font drop down, it is not automatically bringing up the selected font...meaning, it just begins at the very top of the list with 'A'. So...if it is something in the Helvetica family that I want to change to, say, Helvetica Neue, or what have you, I need to scroll all the way down my enormous font list over & over again. God forbid it be a font under 'T'.
Is there any way to correct this issue, or has CS6 just not up to it?!
Thanks.
As Bob says, totally new behavior, and there's nothing you can change other than the number of recent fonts.
There was a similar thread a few weeks ago where I advocated for makeing the recent list longer, rather than shorter, if you use a realtively small number of fonts most of the time. Otherwise, if you type the first few characters of the font name in the field the list should move to that font, and the arrow keys will work to move up and down from that point if you don't want to open the list and use the mouse to move one or two spots.
It is nothing to do with Number of Recent Fonts to Display set to '0'. As someone else mentioned, perhaps setting this to a very high number may help out a bit.
The problem is when I select my font in the character palette, click the drop down to reveal my entire list of fonts - the list does not auto jump to the font I am currently using.
It brings me up to the very top of the list at 'A', so I have to manually scroll down every time through the entire alphabet.
As you know many font families have completely different fonts to display THIN, SEMIBOLD, or what have you, vs. the different attributes of that family come up in the field below the font name (in the character palette). This is really frustrating as even if I attempt to manually type in the name, many times it won't jump to that font in the list due to shortened / abbreviated name.
It's a real headache and in Illustrator even more so as Illustrator doesn't seem to have the scroll option available. Meaning, you need to click the arrow icon and wait for it to scroll all the way down the list.
Any other ideas or preferences that can be changed?
Thanks!
I have to agree with r_tist - InDesign CS5.5 was much more efficient when switching fonts within the same family because the preview list would jump to the currently selected font. The new features of the font preview list have not made enough improvements in the user experience to warrant the removal of jumping to the current font. At least make it an option.
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